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Natural Citizen
11-16-2014, 01:50 PM
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Reuters / Gene Blevins

New software used by the Los Angeles Police Department shows not only where crime is most likely to happen, but also tracks ex-cons and others likely to commit crimes. Civil rights groups are concerned over its use for entrapment and data collection.

Civil rights advocates, however, are concerned about the software program and what it can do, since it never underwent civilian vetting. They also have concerns about privacy, entrapment, and domestic intelligence gathering.

"People who have paid their debts to society shouldn't remain stigmatized in the eyes of police," said Kade Crockford of the American Civil Liberties Union to Reuters, adding that the LAPD risks alienating minorities. "You're repackaging old biases in new technologies,” she said.

ACLU lawyer Peter Bibring said the list amounts to intelligence files on people who may commit crimes — a violation of federal law. Once on the list, he said, "the chances of police scrutiny go up significantly, and your chances of being identified wrongly in a crime."





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