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</div><div>Internal Secret Service emails obtained by CREW show special agents in close communication with Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes, while failing to acknowledge the group’s ties to white nationalists and clashes with law enforcement.In September 2020, a Secret Service agent sent an email to others within the agency, informing them that he had just spoken to Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes about an <a href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?475837-1/president-trump-campaign-rally-fayetteville-north-carolina" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-color: rgb(146, 162, 184); text-underline-position: under; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">upcoming</a> visit by then-President Trump to Fayetteville, NC. The agent, who referred to himself as “the unofficial liaison to the Oath Keepers (inching towards official),” described the group as “primarily retired law enforcement/former military members who are very pro-LEO [law enforcement officer] and Pro Trump. Their stated purpose is to provide protection and medical attention to Trump supporters if they come under attack by leftist groups.” He went on to say that Rhodes, “had specific questions and wanted to liaison [sic] with our personnel” and shared Rhodes’s cell phone number.</div><div>
</div><div>...</div><div>the emails obtained by CREW as part of an ongoing public records request offer only a snapshot of the communication between the Oath Keepers and the Secret Service. As they focus solely on the time period around the Fayetteville event, the extent of the contact Stewart Rhodes had with the agency remains unknown. The agent “inching towards” being the “official” liaison for Oath Keepers suggests a more longstanding relationship with Rhodes. </div>Another Secret Service agent spoke to Rhodes and informed the other agents that “their desire is to assist those attending the event make it to and from their cars safely. They are NOT there to demonstrate or push a political agenda.” In October 2022, a former member of the Oath Keepers testified that Rhodes had spoken to the Secret Service to coordinate around the rally, but an agency spokesman <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/politics/oath-keepers-trial-secret-service/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-color: rgb(146, 162, 184); text-underline-position: under; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">told CNN</a> that, “The US Secret Service doesn’t have enough information to say whether or not this call actually took place.” These emails show that it did.[doc]When one agent requested intelligence about the Oath Keepers another responded: “General searches revealed news articles that touched on the background of the founder Stewart Rhodes and the group. Rhodes has denounced White Nationalists ideals while sharing his dislike for ANTIFA…The group claims it is a local community response team for natural or civil disorders.” Agents also noted that a Facebook account associated with the group “contained pro-gun content, commentary on racism in the US, and news articles about politics,” but failed to find anything else.[grx]There was plenty of other publicly available information about Rhodes and the Oath Keepers at the time that should have easily raised alarm.In 2014, Oath Keepers traveled to Ferguson, Missouri with assault rifles claiming they were providing security for businesses in the area after the grand jury decision not to indict the white police officer who killed Michael Brown. The St. Louis County Police Department had to <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2014/12/03/oath-keepers-ordered-stop-providing-security-ferguson-businesses%C2%A0" style="box-sizing: border-box; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-color: rgb(146, 162, 184); text-underline-position: under; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">demand</a> that the Oath Keepers stop patrolling the city, explaining in a statement that members were walking on rooftops of businesses holding semi-automatic rifles, breaking the county’s ordinance regulating security officers and guards. The police reportedly <a href="https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/police-shut-down-mysterious-oath-keepers-guarding-rooftops-in-downtown/article_f90b6edd-acf8-52e3-a020-3a78db286194.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-color: rgb(146, 162, 184); text-underline-position: under; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">threatened arrest</a>, and the Oath Keepers began protesting the authorities.On the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s shooting, Oath Keepers <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/michael-brown-shooting/why-are-oath-keepers-allowed-be-armed-ferguson-n408156" style="box-sizing: border-box; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-color: rgb(146, 162, 184); text-underline-position: under; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">again arrived in Ferguson</a> with assault rifles and flak jackets, apparently intending to “<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/presence-of-militia-style-group-oath-keepers-in-ferguson-questioned/" style="box-sizing: border-box; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-color: rgb(146, 162, 184); text-underline-position: under; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">protect</a>” businesses and right-wing journalists, including an employee from InfoWars. St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar called their presence “both unnecessary and inflammatory.” This was <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/michael-brown-shooting/why-are-oath-keepers-allowed-be-armed-ferguson-n408156" style="box-sizing: border-box; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-color: rgb(146, 162, 184); text-underline-position: under; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">also</a> <a href="https://www.sltrib.com/news/nation-world/2015/08/12/police-chief-armed-activists-in-ferguson-inflammatory/" style="box-sizing: border-box; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-color: rgb(146, 162, 184); text-underline-position: under; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">covered</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/08/12/oath-keepers-protesters-and-how-the-law-is-used-to-oppress/" style="box-sizing: border-box; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-color: rgb(146, 162, 184); text-underline-position: under; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">extensively</a> by national media.The group has also compared Hillary Clinton to Hitler on its <a href="http://oath-keepers.blogspot.com/2009/05/keeping-your-oath-not-just-following.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-color: rgb(146, 162, 184); text-underline-position: under; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">website</a>, and on May 5, 2015, Rhodes was <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/politics/2015/05/12/pro-constitution-group-founder-hang-mccain-dead/27207815/" style="box-sizing: border-box; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-color: rgb(146, 162, 184); text-underline-position: under; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">recorded saying</a> that then-Sen. John McCain should be tried for treason, convicted and “hung by the neck until dead.” A long list of former Oath Keepers <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/05/16/leader-josephine-county-oath-keepers-breaks-stewart-rhodes-over-leadership-style" style="box-sizing: border-box; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-color: rgb(146, 162, 184); text-underline-position: under; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">allegedly</a> cut ties with the group by 2017, citing concerns with Rhodes’s leadership.Rhodes’s conduct outside of the Oath Keepers had also repeatedly come into question. In October 2015, the Montana Supreme Court’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jjmacnab/2015/11/02/oath-keeper-founder-at-risk-of-being-disbarred/?sh=4d631294d991" style="box-sizing: border-box; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-color: rgb(146, 162, 184); text-underline-position: under; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">recommended</a> that Rhodes be disbarred for violating his attorney oath following a number of ethics and conduct complaints against him, joining <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2012/06/29/arizona-bar-admonishes-oath-keepers-founder-stewart-rhodes" style="box-sizing: border-box; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-color: rgb(146, 162, 184); text-underline-position: under; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">Arizona</a>, which admonished Rhodes in 2012 for practicing without a license. While the nearly all-white Oath Keepers themselves are purportedly not a white nationalist organization, and Rhodes may have “denounced” white nationalist ideals, Oath Keepers have repeatedly worked alongside white supremacist and white nationalist groups. In 2016, as neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups such as the National Socialist Movement, factions of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Freedom Party deployed members at polling sites, the Oath Keepers <a href="https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/suppress-black-vote-trump-campaign-230616" style="box-sizing: border-box; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-color: rgb(146, 162, 184); text-underline-position: under; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">advised</a> its members to do the same undercover. The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/16/boomer-antifa-white-supremacists-rip-into-paramilitary-oath-keepers-for-not-being-racist-enough/" style="box-sizing: border-box; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-color: rgb(146, 162, 184); text-underline-position: under; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">reported</a> in 2017 that white supremacists in the alt-right scene “seem to have a lot in common with the Oath Keepers,” but that the Oath Keepers were not as racist or radical as certain far-right white nationalists would “prefer.” The Oath Keepers have repeatedly been highlighted in national articles as part of the landscape of white supremacist <a href="https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/17/white-supremacists-militias-private-police-215498/" style="box-sizing: border-box; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-color: rgb(146, 162, 184); text-underline-position: under; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">militias</a>, and are often tied to their public ally the <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/proud-boys-oath-keepers-controversial-groups-involved-major/story?id=56687836" style="box-sizing: border-box; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-color: rgb(146, 162, 184); text-underline-position: under; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">Proud Boys</a>, a group that has been <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/proud-boys" style="box-sizing: border-box; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-color: rgb(146, 162, 184); text-underline-position: under; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">categorized</a> as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The Proud Boys similarly are <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axe4b/proud-boys-leader-told-jan-6-investigators-oath-keepers-dropped-his-name-for-clout" style="box-sizing: border-box; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-color: rgb(146, 162, 184); text-underline-position: under; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">allied</a> with the American Guard, a white nationalist group according to SPLC.Rhodes is now best known for his role in organizing significant turnout of insurrectionists at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, just a few months after he was in contact with the Secret Service. Rhodes and other Oath Keepers planned to participate in violence at the Capitol—against Secret Service <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/mike-pence-was-subject-of-ominous-oath-keeper-message-before-capitol-riot" class="hovered" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-color: rgb(146, 162, 184); text-underline-position: under; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">protectees</a>, no less—and he gave followers <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/oath-keepers-meeting-transcript-jan-6-violence-1351912/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-color: rgb(146, 162, 184); text-underline-position: under; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">instructions</a> like “stay fully armed” and “get ready to fight” leading up to the attack.In November 2022, Rhodes was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/stewart-rhodes-oath-keepers-seditious-conspiracy-sentencing-b3ed4556a3dec577539c4181639f666c" class="hovered" style="box-sizing: border-box; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-color: rgb(146, 162, 184); text-underline-position: under; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">convicted</a> of seditious conspiracy by a jury for his role in the attempt to keep Donald Trump in power, and was <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/court-sentences-two-oath-keepers-leaders-seditious-conspiracy-and-other-charges-related-us" style="box-sizing: border-box; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-color: rgb(146, 162, 184); text-underline-position: under; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">sentenced</a> to 18 years in prison in May—the longest of any convicted January 6th defendant so far. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/05/25/1178116193/stewart-rhodes-oath-keepers-verdict" style="box-sizing: border-box; touch-action: manipulation; text-decoration-color: rgb(146, 162, 184); text-underline-position: under; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;">found</a> that Rhodes’s role in January 6th amounted to terrorism and said that he presents “an ongoing threat and peril to this country.”<div>
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</div><div><div class="c-content t-copy" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; line-height: 1.5rem; width: 709.125px;">When protesters took to the street after police shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, they were greeted by law enforcement in full body armor, flanked by armored vehicles. In the two and a half years and countless shootings since, militarized police have become an all too familiar sight. In response, citizens have overwhelmingly begun to film these interactions on their smartphones, making the <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/technology/" id="auto-tag_technology" data-tag="technology" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">technology</a> the eyes of our nation. But as we watch the police, they also watch us – only they don’t use an iPhone. Often, they use military grade surveillance equipment that gives them a much broader view than simple cell phone cameras ever could.The city of Baltimore has, in many ways, become ground zero for the military surveillance technology that is slowly making its way from the battlefields into the hands of police departments across the country. From January to October of last year, police monitored Baltimore’s citizens using a Cessna airplane outfitted with military grade surveillance technologies multiple times, without their knowledge, that were developed for overseas war zones. The Baltimore Police Department has used surveillance technology such as<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-baltimore-secret-surveillance/" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;"> large-scale aerial surveillance</a>, <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/stingray-the-cell-phone-spying-device-us-government-disappears-stingray-spying-records/5389122" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">advanced cell phone tracking</a> and <a href="https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/coalition_letter_to_doj_crt_re_face_recognition_10-18-2016_1.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">facial recognition technology</a> on Baltimore’s citizens, yet these technologies have had little to no oversight from city government, and most have a disproportionate impact on communities of color. Examined together, these surveillance technologies demonstrate an extended record of secret surveillance by the Baltimore Police Department. In August of 2016, the Department of Justice reported that the BPD needed greater oversight and transparency.Yet police using military surveillance technology is increasingly common. “I think that it’s a pretty disturbing trend,” says Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst with the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. “Obviously there has been a lot of attention to the militarization of police after Ferguson, but this is another side of that story.”Cameras in the Sky When it comes to aerial surveillance, the citizens of Baltimore were watched for months without knowing about it. Using twelve high powered cameras attached to each plane, the private company Persistent Surveillance Systems (PSS), in coordination with the Baltimore Police Department, carried out the surveillance of Baltimore, according to an<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-baltimore-secret-surveillance/" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;"> August 2016 investigative report</a> from Bloomberg that detailed the scope of PSS’s surveillance and the lack of oversight it received.The wide-area surveillance system can be traced back to the Air Force, where, in 2006, PSS founder Ross McNutt began to develop a new and unique surveillance program called Angel Fire. He created it so that entire cities in could be monitored from above.The Angel Fire program was surprisingly simple as an idea. As a plane flew over a war zone, the cameras mounted to it would capture a photo every second, for hours on end, which were then digitally stitched together and sent to a command center on the ground, where they images were stored. This created a time-stamped, ever-changing map of an area that could be searched and analyzed. You can zoom in, track where figures went over the course of a day – even potentially going back in time to when an improvised explosive device went off and seeing who set it hours earlier. In addition to providing the location of a single individual, the technology could also be used to track multiple people who interacted with each other, showing where they went regularly, and providing the military the ability to map whole enemy networks, McNutt told Radiolab in 2015.In 2016, that technology was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/08/24/in-baltimore-the-police-and-a-private-company-are-running-surveillance-flights-like-never-before/?utm_term=.3c741b31619b" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">brought to the city of Baltimore</a>.[vid]According to Bloomberg, the aerial surveillance program was funded by private philanthropists who gave the money for the surveillance program through the Baltimore Community Foundation (BCF), a collection of charitable funds benefiting civic projects in the greater Baltimore region. Given the program was funded through a private foundation, and not the city budget, it didn’t receive any scrutiny or approval from local lawmakers as part of the city budget process. The number of people left out of the loop included “Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, the city’s top prosecutor and the state public defender’s office, state and federal lawmakers, and police union officials,” <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-police-surveillance-legislation-20160903-story.html" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">according to the Baltimore Sun</a>. (The BCF declined an interview to Rolling Stone, based on the confidentiality of donor records.)When Bloomberg<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-baltimore-secret-surveillance/" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;"> exposed the program in August</a>, PSS’s actions in Baltimore had involved recording over 300 hours of flight time and taking more than one million pictures of the streets below, according to multiple outlets. PSS would analyze the images they received, and then put together briefings for detectives.The ACLU’s Stanley expected there to be a big debate about this technology when police started trying to use it domestically, and was surprised that the program was able to be implemented with no public debate over this sort of surveillance. Today, the Coalition for Justice, Safety, and Jobs, which includes the ACLU and numerous other organizations, is working to have the Baltimore city council address surveillance as well as push for more transparency in the BPD.In response to the backlash once the program was exposed, <a href="http://www.citypaper.com/news/mobtownbeat/bcp-083116-mob-surveillance-20160830-story.html" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">Baltimore Police Department spokesman T.J. Smith</a> told reporters that “[the program with PSS] is effectively a mobile CitiWatch camera,” referring to Baltimore’s network of 700 street level cameras. He also insisted that the program was not secret, and was not surveillance.David Rocah, a Senior Staff Attorney at ACLU Maryland, disagrees with this assessment. He believes the police’s insistence that the program is legal “ignores the fundamental difference between what a few cameras happen to see on a street and the government creating a permanent record of every person in the city’s movements outside of their home,” he tells Rolling Stone. “The two are simply not comparable.” (Neither T.J. Smith nor the Baltimore Police Department responded to interview requests.)The BPD announced that the aerial surveillance program would be used during Fleet Week and the Baltimore Marathon in October,<a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-fleet-week-marathon-security-20161007-story.html" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;"> according to the Baltimore Sun</a>, and it’s unclear what other flights PSS has been engaged with since being exposed in August of 2016. The impact goes beyond the hypothetical – while some might argue that you have no reason to be concerned if you aren’t doing anything wrong, there are, in fact, very tangible implications for individuals.Lawrence Grandpre, the Director of Research at Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, a grassroots think tank in Baltimore says, “Aerial surveillance is only the tip of the spear when it comes to surveillance in Baltimore.”Beyond Aerial Surveillance While PSS is the most recent example, Baltimore’s citizens have also faced police armed with military technology to <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/stingray-the-cell-phone-spying-device-us-government-disappears-stingray-spying-records/5389122" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">track cellphones</a> and identify faces that was i<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/us/facial-scanning-is-making-gains-in-surveillance.html?pagewanted=2&smid=fb-nytimes&mtrref=observer.com&gwh=AB55A1BCE4012A52C38FFB27C35F7ED9&gwt=pay" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">mplemented and honed</a> overseas. Both of these create very real problems for everyday people.Since 2010, and potentially prior, Baltimore has been subjected to a technology developed for overseas battlefields called Stingray, otherwise know as a cell site simulator. The technology <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/08/23/baltimore-police-stingray-cell-surveillance/31994181/" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">mimics a cellphone tower</a>, causing nearby phones to connect to it. In the pinging back and forth once connected, a Stingray knows not only what cell phones are in the area, but also where they are, the calls they’ve made, and, importantly, the conversations themselves.This data capture isn’t just limited to the individual that police might be looking to track, but also all the other phones on the network. “While the police may indeed use this technology to pinpoint a suspect’s location, by casting such a wide net there is also the potential for many kinds of constitutional abuses – for instance, sweeping up the identities of every person attending a demonstration or a political meeting,” the ACLU’S Stanley <a href="http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/how-militarized-cops-use-intrusive-technology-stingray-and-much-more-intrude-our" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">wrote of Stingrays in 2016</a>.Grandpre contends that the use of technologies like this create a militaristic dynamic between citizens and the authorities. “Policing is supposed to be a public service, but they’re viewing people as enemy combatants,” says Grandpre. “I don’t think folks understand how that filters down to interactions on the street, when you set the frame through one of militarization and engagement, cops then follow the frame.” This can result in conflicts escalating and idea of community policing being undermined.Karl Bickel, a Senior Policy Analyst for the DOJ’s Community Oriented Policing Services, echoed this idea in an <a href="https://cops.usdoj.gov/html/dispatch/12-2013/will_the_growing_militarization_of_our_police_doom_community_policing.asp" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">official 2013 blog post</a>. “Stress training in police academies, and its warrior-like orientation that tends to create an ‘us versus them’ mindset in rookie officers, has the potential of creating barriers between the police and the community,” he wrote.Taking action to curb the use of this technology, groups such as the Center for Media Justice, ColorOfChange.org, and New America’s Open Technology Institute <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3013988-CS-Simulators-Complaint-FINAL.html" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">filed a complaint last August</a> to the FCC, alleging that the BPD doesn’t have the license to use Stingrays, in addition to the fact that Stingrays can disrupt calls in their area, including 911 calls. In mapping Baltimore’s confirmed Stingrays uses over the racial makeup of the city, the complaint also found that Stingrays are disproportionately used against communities of color.Faces in the Crowd According to a recent report from the ACLU, during the protests following the killing of Freddie Gray, the BPD<a href="http://www.aclunc.org/docs/20161011_geofeedia_baltimore_case_study.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;"> also used geo-based social media tracking</a> and facial recognition technology on protesters following the death of Freddie Gray. Facial recognition technology has been around for years, but was refined overseas in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/13/us/facial-recognition-software-moves-from-overseas-wars-to-local-police.html" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq</a>.[vid]Geofeedia, the company behind the social media monitoring technology, fed their information through facial recognition tech, allowed the BPD to track movements of protesters and anti-police actions, arresting those with outstanding warrants “directly from the crowd,” <a href="http://www.aclunc.org/docs/20161011_geofeedia_baltimore_case_study.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">according to the Geofeedia case study</a> of Baltimore, which evaluated the success of their technology during the Freddie Gray protests and was used to market the technology to other police departments.Yet according to reports from the the National Institute of Standards and Technologies in 2011 and <a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/icp.jsp?arnumber=6327355" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">2012</a>, facial recognition technology exhibits a racial bias. The company Cognitec (whose algorithms are used by Maryland police for facial recognition) was one of those evaluated by the NIST. They found that Cognitec’s algorithms regularly performed up to 10 percent worse on African Americans than Caucasians. This means that if you’re African American there is a higher chance you’ll be falsely arrested or stopped if police are utilizing facial recognition technology.Given the results of the Department of Justice’s Investigation of the Baltimore Police Department released in August, this shouldn’t be surprising. The report found that the <a href="https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/6915773/DOJ_Baltimore_Police_Department.0.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none; position: relative; font-weight: 600;">police targeted an inordinate number of people of color</a>, noting that the “BPD disproportionately stops African-American pedestrians.” Throughout Baltimore, the BPD stopped African-American residents at a rate three times higher than white residents, the report found. It also found that “The Department … lacks adequate civilian oversight – its Civilian Review Board is hampered by inadequate resources, and the agency’s internal affairs and disciplinary process lacks transparency.” While this specifically relates to the methods of recourse and justice when it comes to the death of individuals like Freddie Gray, it reflects a general lack of transparency that has extended to include programs like PSS, which was exposed less than a month after the report was released.Given this clandestine approach to law enforcement, the backlash to programs like Stingray, Persistent Surveillance Systems, and facial recognition technology – all exposed only by actors outside of the police department – seems deeply necessary, if for no other reason than learning more about them. “There is no denying that there is some benefit and some crimes will be solved that come from police watching everything that everybody does all the time,” says Stanley. “But this is where the rubber hits the road and we decide whether we really want to go down this path.”</div><footer style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="c-tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; padding: 0.625rem 0px; line-height: 1.3125rem;">In This Article: <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/technology/" title="technology" class="c-tagsitem" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">technology</a>, <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/us-military/" title="US Military" class="c-tagsitem" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transition: color 0.24s cubic-bezier(0.215, 0.61, 0.355, 1) 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">US Military</a></div></footer></div><div>
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<div class="TbwUpd" style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.54; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-top: 1px;"><cite class="iUh30" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px; line-height: 1.43;">https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/18/us/facial-recognition-police.html</cite></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 1.54;">May 18, 2019 - On Tuesday, San Francisco responded to widespread fears over privacy and misuse by banning the use of facial recognition by the police and ...<div class="TXwUJf" style="">Missing: <s>baltimore</s> ‎<s>ferguson</s></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAIQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjnsaWdhsLjAhVPK80KHQEpCjIQFSgAMAJ6BAgCEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-bias-bias-facial-recognition-technology-20190524-story.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-bias-bias-facial-recognition-technology-20190524-story.html&ved=2ahUKEwjnsaWdhsLjAhVPK80KHQEpCjIQFjACegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;"><a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-bias-bias-facial-recognition-technology-20190524-story.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-bias-bias-facial-recognition-technology-20190524-story.html&ved=2ahUKEwjnsaWdhsLjAhVPK80KHQEpCjIQFjACegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-bias-bias-facial-recognition-technology-20190524-story.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-bias-bias-facial-recognition-technology-20190524-story.html&ved=2ahUKEwjnsaWdhsLjAhVPK80KHQEpCjIQFjACegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-bias-bias-facial-recognition-technology-20190524-story.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-bias-bias-facial-recognition-technology-20190524-story.html&ved=2ahUKEwjnsaWdhsLjAhVPK80KHQEpCjIQFjACegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-bias-bias-facial-recognition-technology-20190524-story.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-bias-bias-facial-recognition-technology-20190524-story.html&ved=2ahUKEwjnsaWdhsLjAhVPK80KHQEpCjIQFjACegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-bias-bias-facial-recognition-technology-20190524-story.html" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-bias-bias-facial-recognition-technology-20190524-story.html&ved=2ahUKEwjnsaWdhsLjAhVPK80KHQEpCjIQFjACegQIAhAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Bias in facial recognition technology needs to be fixed - Baltimore Sun</a></h3>
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Elijah Cummings believes his face is probably in some police database somewhere. That’s because Baltimore officers used facial recognition technology to identify those who committed crimes during protests after the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody four years ago.</a><div class="TXwUJf" style=""><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:nklVlh7vQKcJ:https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-bias-bias-facial-recognition-technology-20190524-story.html+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search%3Fq%3Dcache:nklVlh7vQKcJ:https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-bias-bias-facial-recognition-technology-20190524-story.html%2B%26cd%3D3%26hl%3Den%26ct%3Dclnk%26gl%3Dus&ved=2ahUKEwjnsaWdhsLjAhVPK80KHQEpCjIQIDACegQIAhAE" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Missing: <s>ferguson</s> ‎| Must include: </a><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=facial+recognition+baltimore+%22ferguson%22&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjnsaWdhsLjAhVPK80KHQEpCjIQ5t4CMAJ6BAgCEAg" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer;">ferguson</a></div></div></div></div></div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CAMQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwjnsaWdhsLjAhVPK80KHQEpCjIQFSgAMAN6BAgDEAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px; line-height: 1.54;"><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/10/11/aclu-police-used-twitter-facebook-data-track-protesters-baltimore-ferguson/91897034/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/10/11/aclu-police-used-twitter-facebook-data-track-protesters-baltimore-ferguson/91897034/&ved=2ahUKEwjnsaWdhsLjAhVPK80KHQEpCjIQFjADegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.33;"><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/10/11/aclu-police-used-twitter-facebook-data-track-protesters-baltimore-ferguson/91897034/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/10/11/aclu-police-used-twitter-facebook-data-track-protesters-baltimore-ferguson/91897034/&ved=2ahUKEwjnsaWdhsLjAhVPK80KHQEpCjIQFjADegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/10/11/aclu-police-used-twitter-facebook-data-track-protesters-baltimore-ferguson/91897034/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/10/11/aclu-police-used-twitter-facebook-data-track-protesters-baltimore-ferguson/91897034/&ved=2ahUKEwjnsaWdhsLjAhVPK80KHQEpCjIQFjADegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/10/11/aclu-police-used-twitter-facebook-data-track-protesters-baltimore-ferguson/91897034/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/10/11/aclu-police-used-twitter-facebook-data-track-protesters-baltimore-ferguson/91897034/&ved=2ahUKEwjnsaWdhsLjAhVPK80KHQEpCjIQFjADegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/10/11/aclu-police-used-twitter-facebook-data-track-protesters-baltimore-ferguson/91897034/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/10/11/aclu-police-used-twitter-facebook-data-track-protesters-baltimore-ferguson/91897034/&ved=2ahUKEwjnsaWdhsLjAhVPK80KHQEpCjIQFjADegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/10/11/aclu-police-used-twitter-facebook-data-track-protesters-baltimore-ferguson/91897034/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/10/11/aclu-police-used-twitter-facebook-data-track-protesters-baltimore-ferguson/91897034/&ved=2ahUKEwjnsaWdhsLjAhVPK80KHQEpCjIQFjADegQIAxAB" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">ACLU: Police used Twitter, Facebook to track protests - USATODAY.com</a></h3>
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cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Aug 12, 2014 - Of course, not every police officer in Ferguson is dressed that way. ... to protest what they believe to be a civil rights violation, they're staring at ...</a><div class="Tib" style=""><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7xOC6Vwnpa0J:https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/08/ferguson-police-face-civil-rights-protest-dressed-for-military-combat/375962/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">Missing: <s>blm</s> ‎<s>emac</s> ‎<s>emac</s></a></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7xOC6Vwnpa0J:https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/08/ferguson-police-face-civil-rights-protest-dressed-for-military-combat/375962/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; 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</a></div><div><a class="fl" href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7xOC6Vwnpa0J:https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/08/ferguson-police-face-civil-rights-protest-dressed-for-military-combat/375962/+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us" style="text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; display: block; padding: 7px 18px; outline: 0px;">In Radley Balko's important book, "</a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Warrior-Cop-Militarization-Americas/dp/1610392116" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'0',r'375962'" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Rise of the Warrior Cop</a>," he writes that since the 1960s, "law-enforcement agencies across the U.S., at every level of government, have been blurring the line between police officer and soldier. Driven by martial rhetoric and the availability of military-style equipment—from bayonets and M-16 rifles to armored personnel carriers—American police forces have often adopted a mind-set previously reserved for the battlefield. The war on drugs and, more recently, post-9/11 antiterrorism efforts have created a new figure on the U.S. scene: the warrior cop—armed to the teeth, ready to deal harshly with targeted wrongdoers, and a growing threat to familiar American liberties."Before this transformation, even the most egregiously abusive police officers were dressed and outfitted like civilian lawmen. The image above, for example, is a statue in Birmingham, Alabama, meant to capture the essence of Civil Rights-era police abuses....cf powerful img]A handful of protestors in Ferguson, Missouri have reportedly thrown rocks at police, a wholly unjustified act that ought to result in their arrest and prosecution, if the perpetrators can be identified. But in the image above, the camouflage pants and assault rifles are hardly there to protect against thrown rocks. If the police were dressed as civilians, but with helmets and shields, that would be more understandable. The other bit of necessary context: as mostly black protesters face these pseudo-military troopers to protest what they believe to be a civil rights violation, they're staring at another police excess that disproportionately affects people like them. As the ACLU <a href="https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/jus14-warcomeshome-report-web-rel1.pdf" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'2',r'375962'" style="text-decoration-line: none;">noted</a> in its report on police militarization:<blockquote style="background: rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0px; padding: 40px; border-radius: 5px; font-family: " lyon="Lyon" text="Text" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px">The use of paramilitary weapons and tactics primarily impacted people of color; when paramilitary tactics were used in drug searches, the primary targets were people of color, whereas when paramilitary tactics were used in hostage or barricade scenarios, the primary targets were white. Overall, 42 percent of people impacted by a SWAT deployment to execute a search warrant were Black and 12 percent were Latino. This means that of the people impacted by deployments for warrants, at least 54 percent were minorities.Of the deployments in which all the people impacted were minorities, 68 percent were in drug cases, and 61 percent of all the people impacted by SWAT raids in drug cases were minorities. In addition, the incidents we studied revealed stark, often extreme, racial disparities in the use of SWAT locally....</blockquote>The image in the Times photograph is particularly stark, but is depicting something that happens daily in cities all around the United States with little pushback. Community policing is impossible when officers dress up as occupying soldiers. But there is little chance that this pernicious trend will end anytime soon.  </div><div></div><div>slate</div><div>...</div><div><div class="text-2 text parbase section" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What’s more, Ferguson police have used armored vehicles to show force and control crowds. In one <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/police-militarization-ferguson-2014-8#ixzz3AD9HMciA" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">photo</a>, riot gear-clad officers are standing in front of a mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle, barking commands and launching tear gas into groups of demonstrators and journalists.</div><div class="text-3 text parbase section" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This would be one thing if Ferguson were in a war zone, or if protesters were violent—although, it’s hard to imagine a situation in which American police would need a mine-resistant vehicle. But an episode of looting aside, Ferguson police aren’t dealing with any particular danger. Nonetheless, they’re treating demonstrators—and Ferguson residents writ large—as a population to occupy, not citizens to protect.</div><div class="text parbase text-4 section" style="">
In his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1610394577/?tag=slatmaga-20" target="blank" style="" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" font-weight="font-weight" bold="bold">The Rise of the Warrior Cop</a>, journalist Radley Balko notes that since the 1960s, “law-enforcement agencies across the U.S., at every level of government, have been blurring the line between police officer and soldier. Driven by martial rhetoric and the availability of military-style equipment—from bayonets and M–16 rifles to armored personnel carriers—American police forces have often adopted a mind-set previously reserved for the battlefield.”This is part of a broader problem.</div><div class="text text-6 parbase section" style="">This process ramped up with the “war on drugs” in the 1980s and 1990s, as the federal government supplied local and state police forces with military-grade weaponry to clamp down on drug trafficking and other crime. And it accelerated again after the 9/11 attacks and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, when the federal government had—and sent—billions in surplus military equipment to state and local governments. Since 2006, according to an <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/us/war-gear-flows-to-police-departments.html?r=0" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">analysis</a> by the New York Times, police departments have acquired 435 armored vehicles, 533 planes, 93,763 machine guns, and 432 mine-resistant armored trucks. Overall, since Congress established its program to transfer military hardware, <a href="https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/jus14-warcomeshome-report-web-rel1.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">local and state police departments</a> <a href="https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/jus14-warcomeshome-report-web-rel1.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">have received $4.3 billion worth of equipment. Accordingly, the value of military equipment used by these police agencies has increased from $1 million in 1990 to $324 million in 1995 (shortly after the program was established), to nearly $450 million in 2013.</a></div><div class="text parbase text-7 section" style="">At the same time as crime has fallen to its lowest levels in decades, police departments are acquiring more hardware and finding more reasons to use SWAT teams and other heavy-handed tactics, regardless of the situation. According to an American Civil Liberties Union <a href="https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/assets/jus14-warcomeshome-report-web-rel1.pdf" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold;">report</a> released this summer, 79 percent of SWAT deployments from 2011 to 2012 were for search warrants, a massive overreaction that can have disastrous consequences, including injury and death. That was the case for Aiyana Stanley-Jones, who was killed during a SWAT raid by the Detroit police department. Serving a search warrant for an occupant of the house, Detroit police rushed in with flash bangs and ballistic shields. When one resident tried to grab an officer’s gun, it fired, striking Aiyana. She was 7....</div></div><div>==</div>