Thousands of Atlanta voters petitioned for a referendum on the police training center, but the city just ignored it. I’m still furious.

#Atlanta #copcity

https://editions.ajc.com/shortcode/AJC820/edition/5255ad3a-9751-68f6-52c5-64bd58417745?page=3d9e927d-7b2f-11ed-bb2f-50ce9c55b52a&

This is political violence 😡

"... When he drives through his neighborhood now, Brian Page passes rows of police cars and AI‑powered cameras that track nearly every movement ..."
#CopCity #atlanta #AIsurveillance https://truthout.org/articles/in-atlanta-ai-surveillance-expands-as-cop-city-reshapes-black-communities/

"When he drives through his neighborhood now, Brian Page passes rows of police cars and AI‑powered cameras that track nearly every movement.

For most of his life, Page, who goes by “Scapegoat Jones,” felt safest in the community that Atlanta officials have since flooded with officers and surveillance technology in the name of “public safety.” He bought a house six minutes from the one he grew up in in DeKalb County, is raising his daughter in the same majority‑Black neighborhood, and cherished the forest trail where his family used to jog and ride bikes.

Now, a massive police training complex and an expanding web of surveillance rise in its place, and it makes him feel watched, not protected.

The network, he said, “certainly feels like an invasion of privacy.”

The 41-year-old’s unease about the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, more commonly known as “Cop City,” is at the center of a much larger experiment.

Built atop 85 acres of one of Atlanta’s last urban forests, the training center is now wired into what has become the most expansive surveillance network of any city in the U.S., part of more than 60,000 public and private cameras linked to law enforcement across the metro area."

https://capitalbnews.org/atlanta-cop-city-ai-policing-black-community/

#AI #AIPolicing #USA #CopCity #Atlanta #Surveillance

#Atlanta ’s ‘#CopCity’ Makes a Black Neighborhood a Testing Lab for #AI Policing

https://capitalbnews.org/atlanta-cop-city-ai-policing-black-community/

So about Proton Mail… not so privacy oriented after all.

https://archive.ph/Zvw3O

#protonmail #uspol #USPolitics #CopCity #betrayal

I mean, neutrality is picking a side and the Swiss will always side with the capitalists.

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester

https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/

#Proton #ProtonMail #FBI #ACAB #CopCity #Protestor #Security #Privacy #Surveillance