When will the government's 'national crackdown' on high street crime reach Ipswich?
The government has accepted that organised crime is gutting Britain's high streets and has put £30m behind a "national crackdown" to fight it, but the funded officers are going to Manchester, the West Midlands, Kent and Essex. Ipswich has again been overlooked – and no one seems to be asking why.
'London mayor Sadiq Khan blocks £50m Met police deal with Palantir
Palantir: 'It worked with Peter Mandelson’s lobbying company, Global Counsel, until its collapse, and Mandelson took the prime minister, Keir Starmer, on a trip to Palantir’s Washington DC showroom.'
#Palantir #PeterMandelson #Mandelson #surveillance #technology #policing #police
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4. High-Tech Urban Counter-Insurgency
As economic inequality grows and climate migration increases over the coming decades, global states are anticipating civil unrest. The lessons learned from navigating tight, densely populated refugee camps and urban ruins with armed quadcopters are precisely the tactical playbooks being studied for future domestic riot control and urban policing.
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Instead of just physical walls, states are deploying automated sensor arrays, thermal-imaging drones, and autonomous AI towers that can detect human movement miles away. If a drone in a conflict zone can automatically authorize tracking, a border drone can automatically trigger a deployment to intercept migrants. It completely sterilizes the human element of asylum, turning human movement into a security anomaly to be resolved by an algorithm.
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We are already seeing the early stages of this in major metropolitan cities worldwide. Predictive policing algorithms, massive networks of #CCTV cameras linked to facial recognition, and data-harvesting engines are used to monitor marginalized communities, political protestors, and activists. The transition from “tracking a militant in an active conflict zone” to “tracking a climate activist or a union striker in a Western city” is a terrifyingly short leap in software code.
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2. The Normalization of Algorithmic Policing
Once the precedent is set that an AI can analyze a human being's "pattern of life"—their phone data, their social circles, their daily movements—and flag them as a threat, that logic naturally trickles down into domestic policing.
Currently reading: "Cop Cop: Breaking the Fixed System of American Policing" by Mac Muir and Greg Finch, published last year:
https://zandoprojects.com/books/cop-cop-hardcover
The authors were "senior investigators at the largest police oversight agency in America, tasked with policing the police in New York City. They are our eyes on the inside, and this book takes us into their world.
Cop Cop lays bare the web of real cases investigated by the authors over nearly a decade working for the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB)...."
I'm only a tenth of the way through but I'm learning a lot, such as the basic historical timeline of police accountability reforms and backlash in NYC, and some exposition that feels like the missing manual every NYC resident should get about the fundamental structure, composition, and size of the NYPD.
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