Law Enforcement
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Langley: Federal law prevents police from shooting down criminal drones
“And then legally, even to today, law enforcement is not allowed to engage that drone. They can't take it down. It's FAA airspace. It's not law enforcement airspace.”
Langley: Tech sophistication for policing should scale with crime severity
“The framework that we use is, I don't know how you land this, is that the severity of a crime should be commiserate with the sophistication of technology.”
Langley: Body cameras exonerate officers in majority of foul play cases
“In the majority of cases that I see, where foul play is called, it is almost always the inverse. Where a law enforcement officer was just trying to do their job, and on the other side, there was other mental health issue, there was something gone wrong, and it…”
Horowitz: Reducing police presence creates crime careers and avoids systemic solutions
“And so by reducing law enforcement, you create a crime career path, and it Kind of lets us avoid creating real career paths for people in that situation, and so it's a cascading effect of just badness.”
Horowitz: Reallocating police funds to social work has failed
“So you have to have, I'm not against social work, but you can't do it at the expense of crime, you know, law enforcement, and we saw that. I mean, like, we ran the experiment, it didn't work.”
Horowitz: Declining to enforce laws punishes victims without fixing prisons
“You can't, you're not going to solve the prison problem by not enforcing the law. Like, that's just, you just make the, you punish the victims on behalf of the criminals at that point, which is, I think that's a very dangerous thing for a society to do.”
Brown: Uncovered Only Takes Cold Cases Over Three Years Old
“And so the cases that we work on are a minimum of three years old so that we don't get involved in an active investigation or interfere in it.”
Brown: Killers Will Join Uncovered and Have Their IPs Tracked
“The killers will come and become members of Uncovered, and we'll track their IPs, and we'll give that information to law enforcement to solve these cases.”
Polosukhin: Law enforcement lacks tools to identify AI-generated media
“The people are using these tools now in very malicious ways right now. And law enforcement don't have a, like really good ways to deal with this. And so I think everything from this, like on camera, like signing, we need this now, like they really have no way …”
Brown: Uncovered Will Track Killers' IP Addresses When They Join
“We do believe that the killers will come and become members of Uncovered, and we'll track their IPs, and we'll give that information to law enforcement to help solve these cases.”
Brown: Progressive Police Embrace Crowdsourcing, But Conservative Agencies Reject Us
“There are those that are more on the conservative side that see this as their data, their investigation. They told us to go pound sand. We don't want your help. Then there's those on the more progressive side that have said, Hey, this might be the future of po…”
Freckling: Law Enforcement Can Legally Buy Private Geolocation Data for Prosecutions
“It is legal for law enforcement to purchase private data that's collected this way through geo location, through search history and law enforcement can purchase that information and use it in prosecution without running a foul of the fourth amendment to unreas…”
Law enforcement caught dozens of violent criminals using GEDmatch
“And now they've,
Caught many dozens, maybe even hundreds of killers or rapists this way”
Sidhu: Citizens interacting with local police are essentially customers
“Well, I mean, anybody who is interacting with a police officer or deputy sheriff at a local law enforcement level is essentially a customer.”
Kutcher: Thorn's Spotlight tool is used across all 50 US states
“So we have one tool called spotlight that is used by in all of the states and law enforcement around the world to help identify trafficking victims and collaborate on caseload and prioritize caseload so that they can find the children first.”
Sonnenshein: Bitcoin is the worst mechanism for illicit activity
“Digital currencies like Bitcoin. Are, in fact, the worst, and again, I'll repeat, the worst mechanism for you to use if you would like to do anything the least bit untoward, nefarious, legal, you choose your own word. Every transaction in Bitcoin, the best way…”
Government Surveillance Capacity Has Increased Massively Despite End-to-End Encryption
“If you look at, like, the overall information law enforcement and government has to surveil people, even with end-to-end encryption existing, it's way higher than it was 10 years ago, and way, way higher than it was 20 years ago before.”
Wittes: Unopenable encrypted phones will eventually spark a legislative crisis
“More and more and more phones are showing up in law enforcement un openable. And this is affecting more and more law enforcement agencies more and more often, and we're having no debate about it. And the problem with that is then one big thing will happen, and…”
Ice Cube: Cameras expose how US law enforcement preys on citizens
“Now you look up and people realize that it's a, it's, it is an epidemic because we have camera phones body cams, dash cams, all these things are letting people know the things that we've been knowing for hundreds of years in this country that You know, the law…”
Culver: Law Enforcement Accesses Biometrics More Easily Than iPhone Passcodes
“I think it's much easier for law enforcement to access your phone via touch ID, like you were saying through touch ID or facial recognition. But the nice thing Apple does is if you have three failed attempts, Or if you shut off your phone, you have to reenter …”