Posted on 12/09/2024 6:12:30 PM PST by xxqqzz
The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office has admitted in a settlement agreement made public on Wednesday that its policy of keeping a list of people considered likely to commit future crimes and sending deputies to their homes violated the U.S. Constitution.
As part of the settlement, the office will pay $105,000 to four Pasco County residents who were targeted by the law enforcement agency and is barred from implementing any similar program in the future.
The program, dubbed “Intelligent Led Policing” by the Sheriff’s Office and “predictive policing” by its critics, first came to light in a series of reports by the Tampa Bay Times in 2020. The paper reported that after Sheriff Chris Nocco took office in 2011, he created a “cutting-edge intelligence program” designed to stop crime before it happened, which led to the harassment of children and their families.
The Times found that Pasco County residents who got caught in the agency’s sights were placed on a list as potential criminals and subjected to harassment, often having deputies show up at odd hours. More than 12,500 times, the reporters found, deputies checked on the people identified by a departmental algorithm as targets.
Those targeted were cited for violations such as missing mailbox numbers or overgrown grass. The paper reported that one of the goals of the program was to encourage those who made it onto the agency’s list to move away.
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Why did they think that was ok and they wouldn’t be caught? Sounds like the sheriff & deputies need new careers in something nongovernmental.
Sounds like Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s successful “Broken Windows” policy gone Frankenstein’s monster.
Exactly. Part of the settlement should have been terminations.
Minority Report in real life.
I am not sure if it is County policing or just my obscure location, but with the exception of one bad “renter” I have not had the need to lock our doors since 1997.
LOL!
Interesting they could predict crime but not this.
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