After the Capitol attack, security experts offered some advice: Double down on surveillance.

But that won't help. Instead of fighting right-wing extremists, more data-sharing is likely to compound the pain inflicted upon immigrants and minorities https://trib.al/ozD40yw 
Law enforcement hasn't been focused on:

✖️Conspiracy theorists
✖️White supremacists
✖️Gun enthusiasts

Their sights have been trained on foreigners and poor people of color, who as a result will invariably feature in whatever information they have https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1OwxWVqVozVJQ
Consider the DHS’s information-sharing tactics with the DMV. It is consciously constructed with an eye towards undocumented immigrants.

As a result of the 2005 Real ID Act, immigrant families experienced added scrutiny and threat of deportation http://trib.al/ozD40yw 
Or consider who’s likely to be in the database of the NYPD.

The racial bias of Stop & Frisk policing meant that in at least one year, the number of young Black men stopped exceeded the city’s entire population of young Black men http://trib.al/ozD40yw 
Anyone processed by the NYPD gets their picture taken, so its database will be skewed toward IDing Black people — an artifact of a racist history.

NYC is not alone, so efforts to make data universally accessible to the police will perpetuate the issue http://trib.al/ozD40yw 
In general, it’s not justice if you’re nabbing bad guys only in the poor, minority part of town.

The potential for domestic terrorism is a major problem, but the answer is not as simple as better data sharing http://trib.al/ozD40yw 
Anyone who paid attention to Parler could have known that something bad was coming to Washington D.C.

If authorities had taken the extremist chatter seriously, they would have been better prepared http://trib.al/ozD40yw 
The Capitol attack a failure to act on an obvious threat.

If the intelligence community wants to counter the danger of White rage turning violent, it will require a different approach, with more realistic assumptions about what troubles the nation http://trib.al/ozD40yw 
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