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Watch the Watchers: LAPD officer database
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#103Naysayers on this site are ignorant about the Fact that Officers have to care about and assist them no matter how much they act like kids who need detention
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#104Police surveil bad guys, so me thinks thou dost protest too much
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Police and Law Enforcement salivate at the data and control Social Media/Tech companies have. Of course they do, but the core point remains: the kind of power wielded is not the same. Pinterest can’t show up at your door with guns based on the things you pin. The reason police salivate is because of the possibilities unlocked by having such data while also being “the law”. I’m in no way claiming that this power is…
Sorry I guess I'm not keeping up. If tech has the data, law enforcement has access to said data. Simple as.
Law enforcement has a mandate and "lawful" monopoly on violence. Pinterest does not. A private citizen acting as a vigilante does not.
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#106I wonder how hard it is to download the whole database from this source. Would be cool if they released a straight sqlite file or something to do analysis.
The site doesn't seem to be thrown together very well, you can dump the entire DB by searching for a space character [0] (assuming every officer should have a space in their full name). It dumps as a nice JSON format with all the details. All the headshots can easily be extracted by appending " https://watchthewatchers.net/headshots/ " to the values from the "imagePath" value in the JSON dump. [0] https://watchthewat…
> you can dump the entire DB by searching for a space character
You'll probably miss some names like McLovin.
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know (I'm just a Brit watching from afar), but I'd assume the LAPD have databases full of information on citizens, of course not shared with the public web, only shared with police forces, mostly. The public web though is how citizens share information with each other, I'm not sure excluding police officers would make it better. Seeking an equivalence here also strikes me as a false equivalence - the power ba…
So how would you feel if there was a database of tech employees? Tech companies have absolute power over people’s lives and a huge amount of private information used for malicious purposes. Would you be happy if it said “Here are tim and james, here is where they live, make them accountable!”?
> how would you feel if there was a database of tech employees?
There's probably 100 recruiter companies.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think any of them were conjoined twins or borg-like linked collectives if that's what you mean. So yes they were all individual people.
Which ones, specifically?
The ones that ignored the warnings of what was happening and did not enforce facebook's own policies on hate speech.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
the very concept of the police is a form of political ideology.
what an insane take. police has existed in every form of society and it is necessary for a civilized society to function. its like being against roads, or hospitals, or public transportation. the dichotomy of LA crime being out of control and LA people being so anti-cop will never fail to amuse me.
>police has existed in every form of society
"State enforcers to protect the politicians and people in power have existed in every form of society" * yes.
>its like being against roads, or hospitals, or public transportation
Yes.