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By design, it's hard for people to know if police are using AI to write their narrative reports for them, but we are cruising toward mass use and the chaos it will likely cause. With mass adoption on the horizon, some cities, states, and counties, are trying to regulate or ban it proactively!

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While they’re squeezing dollars from cancer research, I’d love to see how much money they spent on getting this ad out the door and on tv.

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Entire court cases might stand on police reports. This is 100% NOT a place to be using AI (I would argue there are many, this is but one). Much hangs on the balance that an officer can attest to what might be an incorrect/unverified AI-assisted report. This is not the answer to a paperwork problem.

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By design, it's hard for people to know if police are using AI to write their narrative reports for them, but we are cruising toward mass use and the chaos it will likely cause. With mass adoption on the horizon, some cities, states, and counties, are trying to regulate or ban it proactively!

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As a historian, I just to make the stakes really, really clear for you. Every dollar you cut from higher education is a direct investment in authoritarianism. – @melanienewport.bsky.social

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Without much exaggeration, I often say that one of the high points of human civilization is that for less than a dollar, you can reliably send a letter anywhere in the US and it will arrive in just a few days.

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Justice Department deletes database tracking federal police misconduct.

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Seems that many soon-to-be-graduating law students who'd arranged human rights-focused jobs with the US government next year are now out in the cold. So we've re-opened our application window for those seeking a host for an externally funded post-grad fellowship. www.eff.org/about/opport...

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Resist and Build Summit | 05.02.25 - 05.05.25 Registration opens soon for the Resist and Build Summit May 2-5, 2025, in Atlanta, GA. resistandbuild.net/atl-2025/ Participants will explore post-capitalist futures and forge connections between resistance movements and alternative institutions.

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Excellent work from my colleague @mguariglia.bsky.social

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It's not savings if we paid for those services and expect them? If I buy a slice of pizza, and someone slaps it to the ground before it gets to me---that's not savings for me or the pizza place. Why not try cutting some of the billions of dollars the pizza place is spending on border surveillance.

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Recently read this fascinating book by @mguariglia.bsky.social Highly recommend this if you are a historian, working in the field of criminology or to anyone who is interested in the history of NYPD.

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Posting again to BOOKMARK because @bsky.app @support.bsky.team doesn’t seem to think users need a way to save posts without using a strange public pinning system. So, filling your feed instead. But, if you are interested in #policing history and #immigration, why not take a look!

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Did you miss one of our regular IEHS Online Book Series events? No worries, we've got a great collection of recordings from previous events on our YouTube page. Check out @mguariglia.bsky.social's discussion of his 2023 book, Police and the Empire City! www.youtube.com/watch?v=83oR...

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Keep in mind, this person saying anyone who has less than 2 kids is a “traitor” owns a company providing billions of dollars worth of surveillance equipment to the U.S. government.

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What a bizzare time to be writing a book on the long relationship between the US government and collecting information on infividuals.

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Over a month in and the course on information and power in the U.S. is going very well and is only too shocking relevant for these students.

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@alondra.bsky.social is the leader we need, now and always. She is all wisdom and heart—please draw attention and heed her warnings in this speech at the Paris Summit on AI about the three fallacies of AI. See here www.techpolicy.press/three-fallac...

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The Immigration and Ethnic History Society just posted this video of me, from summer 2024, talking about my book Police and the Empire City and how immigration, race, and empire played a key role in shaping the modern police department.

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New from me: Pasadena approved another contract with Shotspotter. But 70% of ShotSpotter calls led to no evidence of a shooting. ShotSpotter also failed to alert police to fatal shootings and routinely misidentified fireworks and other sounds as gunfire. lapublicpress.org/2025/02/pasa...

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As far as post docs for American history go, this is a sweet one. The Mellon postdoc at Cambridge. 3 years. Please share 🗃️ www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50345/

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Atlanta police have set up secret surveillance cameras outside of Stop Cop City activists' houses and gathering spots––and they refuse to answer any questions about the cameras www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Google has removed its pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance. They have been, and continue to be, on the wrong side of history.

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I wrote a full-throated condemnation of Google for their decision to remove from their policies a pledge that they would never employ their AI for weapons or surveillance.

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Another one from my colleagues and I: Yes, unless you are interfering with their duties, you have the Constitutionally-protected right to film ICE agents.

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Thrilled that my first solo-authored law article is now published! A year's worth of data collection and analysis wrapped up in 60 pages and some pretty data tables. Grateful to my mentors and colleagues who supported me along the way.

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When Platforms and the Government Unite, Remember What’s Private and What Isn’t From @thorinklosowski.com and I for @eff.org

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An amazing book, an amazing interview, a fantastic interviewer...the whole package for your afternoon reading.

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Some folks in this country talking about bureaucracy need to read some Weber. I’m prescribing this free PDF of Politics as Vocation.

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Read my book! Learn about US governmental power!

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17 MONTHS in jail because he was falsely identified by AI.

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My students are reading about the origins of bureaucracy and the US railroad industry for class tomorrow and this got a legitimate out loud chuckle from me.

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Not surprising that that a mindset that insists that a department that operates globally does not require "bureaucracy" is also currently producing police that outsource writing narrative police reports to generative AI being fed body-worn camera audio of encounters with the public.

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Imagine trying to run an intelligence agency that's collecting a literally unfathomable amount of invasive signals intelligence from around the entire globe--and then being told you need to delete internal and external pages that include very common words like "inclusion"

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1. EXCLUSIVE Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information. The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work

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Newspaper headline from 1915: "Constant Surveillance Has Depressing Effect"

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Trump’s second coming can’t be understood without turning our gaze outward, toward a broader geography of U.S. state violence.

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There's interest in this again, so I'm sharing @eff.org's complete publicly available and open source map of border surveillance infrastructure so people can see the constant surveillance border communities are under as well as the money and resources put to the great nationalist boondoggle.

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I live in regret that I never got to meet James C Scott, so one of the nerdiest things I've ever done--but I saw a post that his personal library had been given to a used bookstore in New Haven, so I sent a friend to go pick up just a book from his library for me.

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For someone who is writing a book about the US government's relationship to information, and who has studied the growth of ransomware's ability to take that data hostage--it's fascinating to see the executive branch open the door to the hostage takers and just let them go buck wild.

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