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the fight against what @stoplapdspying calls "surveillance bureaucracy" and why it's essential today. I'm going to referencing the situation here in #MEPolitics, where the fusion center, could be shut down as result of #GeorgeFloydProtests, #BlueLeaks & a whistle blower suit
the fight against what @stoplapdspying calls "surveillance bureaucracy" and why it's essential today. I'm going to referencing the situation here in #MEPolitics, where the fusion center, could be shut down as result of #GeorgeFloydProtests, #BlueLeaks & a whistle blower suit
First, Surveillance bureaucracy, @stoplapdspying described it as a process wherein "police publicize some information about their surveillance systems, and then regulations create "public” approval of those systems. " https://stoplapdspying.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/TRUST-THE-PPL-not-the-POLICE.pdf
. @stoplapdspying compares these efforts to "decades of transparency legislation, civilian oversight, and self-auditing have done nothing to reduce the power of the carceral state."
Again, @stoplapdspying "Instead, they helped create a vast punishment bureaucracy that lends political legitimacy and social inertia to mass caging and police violence."
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"It's absurd to hope that applying this same framework to the governance of surveillance technology will do anything other than expand the reach and harm of policing, much like how these reforms have long made the carceral state bigger, harsher, more durable, and racist as ever."
Now consider, this recent story on the fusion center controversy here in #MEPolitics. The article notes that Maine's fusion center quickly drifted from counterterrorism but to crime law but doesn't link police #surveillance to criminalization in general https://www.pressherald.com/2020/07/12/stolen-documents-show-maine-police-unit-shifted-focus-from-terrorism-to-routine-crimes/
Worst of all, even though multiple State Legislators, like @CharlotteWarren & @CraigHickman, have called to defund the fusion center, the PPH article above guides the discussion toward reform, toward the construction of a "surveillance bureaucracy" https://mainebeacon.com/lawmakers-call-to-defund-maines-secretive-police-intelligence-agency/
We know from #BlueLeaks that police intelligence centers laundering far right propaganda as intelligence: https://mainernews.com/maine-spy-agency-spread-far-right-rumors-of-blm-protest-violence/
We know that their hyping up threats & contributing to the escalating confrontations at protesters: https://minnesotareformer.com/2020/07/08/leaked-documents-intelligence-wing-of-law-enforcement-struggled-to-fulfill-its-mission-during-george-floyd-protests/
We know that fusion centers #surveillance is mixed up the routine policing of crimes of poverty: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/05/camden-obama-police-brutality-black-lives-matter
What's worse, there will be many Post- #GeorgeFloydProtests trying to redesign mass incarceration as a "smarter" police state, that's the "Camden model." That's what surveillance bureaucracy" will facilitate. That's why its so important to fight it. https://jacobinmag.com/2020/07/camden-new-jersey-police-reform-surveillance
