[alex_young]

The interesting part here is that they are apparently no longer even trying to use parallel construction [0] to cover this stuff up. They somehow feel confident that just saying we have this technology, we don’t say how we use it, but we wind up on the right trail and then gather some evidence down the road we wound up on somehow.

Seems shaky at best. Smells of hubris.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction

[sneak]

Nothing will change until and unless police start suffering severe consequences for breaking the law.

Such consequences will never come from the state.

[thephyber]

Department insurance policies are the only thing that seems to scare departments into improving policies and behaviors.

Insurers who threaten to drop departments have immense leverage that city managers, city elected leaders, and voters don’t.

There aren’t a lot of departments who go bankrupt, but the few that do make a crying show of it and they are a great to show departments who flout reform.

[mulmen]

> Such consequences will never come from the state.

Seattle’s consent decree directly contradicts this.

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-returns-fu...