Posted on 08/31/2024 12:27:48 PM PDT by CFW
The Sheriff’s Office of Pasco County, Florida, harasses people in their homes using a method they call “predictive policing.” The program has unfolded like a dystopian nightmare for the Pasco residents it has ensnared, who have been subjected to near-constant police surveillance and harassment. The Sheriff'sOffice claims the program’s goal is to predict and prevent crime before it happens by targeting people they suspect may commit crimes in the future, dubbing the approach “intelligence-led policing.” This euphemism may make it seem like there’s thoughtfulness to the approach, but there’s nothing fair or smart about it.
Using a crude computer-algorithm, the Sheriff’s Office creates a list of people they think are likely to commit crimes in the future. It places people on the list based on their criminal record, but also based on things that the person may not have been able to control, such as whether they have been suspected of a crime, whether they witnessed a crime or even whether they were a victim of a crime. The SO's calls the people on the list “prolific offenders.”
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Code enforcement is a favorite tactic for ensuring compliance during the deputies’ visits. To coerce people into letting the deputies into their home or answering their questions—or sometimes purely to intimidate them—the deputies slap their victims with citations for innocuous offenses like missing house numbers on the mailbox, chickens in the back yard or unmowed grass on the lawn. By design, family members of prolific offenders are ensnared by the program too. Robert Jones had a son on the prolific offender list, and Pasco deputies showed up at his door multiple times a week asking about his son. When the deputies decided that he wasn’t cooperating fully, they wrote him multiple citations for tall grass and other similar property code violations.
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Round up the usual suspects.
Department of Pre-Crime sounds like a catchy name…😉
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS
Sounds similar to Minority Report, without the psychics in the swimming pool.
The examples are crazy!
“IJ client Dalanea Taylor, who was placed on the list after she was arrested several times and went to prison when she was a teenager, was harassed for years after she was released. Now 21, Dalanea hasn’t been in trouble since. But that hasn’t stopped Pasco deputies from repeatedly showing up at her home and asking her uncomfortable questions about her friends, about whether she was in a relationship and even about her male friends in the photos she posted on Facebook. Once, in 2018, deputies showed up at her house at 7:32 a.m. on New Year’s Day. Though a family friend begged them to stop harassing Dalanea, the deputies made plans to keep monitoring her for years to come.”
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Once you have served your sentence and are off parole/probation, there is no need for law enforcement to harass you or monitor your behavior unless they have some evidence you are committing crimes.
It is just the beginning. This will soon be everywhere.
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Roy Scheider stars in this intense action thriller as a courageous police officer pilot battling government fanatics planning to misuse an experimental attack helicopter. Chosen to test BLUE THUNDER, Frank Murphy (Scheider) is amazed by the high-speed, high-tech chopper. It can see through walls, record a whisper or level a city block. Distrusting the military mentality behind BLUE THUNDER, Murphy and his partner Lyman Good (Daniel Stern) soon discover that the remarkable craft is slated for use as the ultimate weapon in surveillance and crowd control. Jeopardized after being discovered by sinister Colonel Cochrane (Malcolm McDowell), Murphy flies BLUE THUNDER against military aircraft in a spellbinding contest over Los Angeles.
According to the article below, the Pasco sheriff has stopped the practice.
Anyway, there is a saying about the FBI: if they want ya, they got ya. Meaning there are so many federal crimes on the books that one is bound to apply to you.
The same is apparently true at the local level. Don’t cooperate, and you’ll be harassed with petty things like a lawn mowing complaint.
That was my first thought. People incarcerated for not having done anything.
How nice of them. Do these scary people still have jobs?
The sheep love it. Until it happens to them. They cannot grasp fact that if, they can do it to the unwashed, they can and will do it to them. Until it happens.
The guy in Orlando who eat the Krispy Creme donut[s] was secure in the knowledge he did nothing wrong. Until he gave the Police consent to search his vehicle.
March 10, 2021
Have they stopped the practice? Or, are they just saying they have stopped the practice now that a lawsuit has been filed and a spotlight shone on their unconstitutional policies?
Their saying they have stopped certainly increases the plaintiff’s chances of winning the lawsuit since it is pretty much an admission that they were in the wrong and violated the plaintiff’s civil rights.
Never agree to a search. Never admit anything.
Best to just say nothing.
I live in a rural part of this county in Florida. This is the first I’ve heard of this. It has not affected me or my neighbors at all.
Sounds like weaponized prior restraint.
"Prior restraint is the censorship of speech or expression before it occurs."
> Have they stopped the practice? <
Excellent question. “Stopped” could mean stopped. Or it could just mean scaled back to make it less obvious.
This whole thing is sad on many levels. Bad times are ahead. The police will need to trust decent citizens. And decent citizens will need to trust the police. Stories like this one won’t help.
You have to say you choose to remain silent. If you don't say it, they can say it is evidence.
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/when-how-invoke-your-right-silence.html
The only way to prevent the government from introducing evidence of the suspect's silence at trial is to explicitly invoke (assert) the right to say nothing. In other words, without being warned by the police or advised by a lawyer, and without even the benefit of the familiar Miranda warnings (which might trigger an "I want to invoke my right to be silent!"), the interviewee must apparently say words to the effect of, "I invoke my privilege against self-incrimination."
Sheriff Nocco.
He is getting close to Grady Judd fame...
Reporter: the Coroner’s report stated that the Jamaican illegal was hit by 67 bullets. Is that true?
Grady: yes, my deputies ran out of ammo. We will correct that problem.
5.56mm
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