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#policemisconduct — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. EFF: The High Crime of “LMAO”: How Cops Are Treating Mass Surveillance As a Joke. “When law enforcement and tech salespeople pitch ALPRs to city councils, they stick to a familiar script. They trumpet the technology, which is often provided by private companies like Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions, or Axon, as an essential tool for solving high-stakes crimes, such as car jacking, […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/15/the-high-crime-of-lmao-how-cops-are-treating-mass-surveillance-as-a-joke-eff/
  2. University of New Hampshire: Bystander videos are ‘fundamentally changing how the news is made’. “Just weeks before [Alex] Pretti’s death, Renee Good was shot and killed by federal agents during Operation Metro Surge, a large-scale ICE deployment in Minnesota. In the Good case, too, bystander videos analyzed by professional journalists contradicted the government’s account of the incident.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/18/university-of-new-hampshire-bystander-videos-are-fundamentally-changing-how-the-news-is-made/