A License To Spy

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Scott Alexander Meiner — No Comments ↓

Salient reporting from Citynewswatch.blogspot.com highlighting the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s (CMPD) escalation of a predictive data-mining and surveillance infrastructure in advance of the 2012 Democratic National Convention. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg PD is not unusual but rather instructive. Funding is derived from asset forfeiture dollars (routed through the…