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Pasco's sheriff created a futuristic program to stop crime before it happens. [View all]
Pasco’s sheriff created a futuristic program to stop crime before it happens.
It monitors and harasses families across the county.
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By KATHLEEN McGRORY and NEIL BEDI
Photos by DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD
Times staff
Sept. 3, 2020
Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco took office in 2011 with a bold plan: to create a cutting-edge intelligence program that could stop crime before it happened.
What he actually built was a system to continuously monitor and harass Pasco County residents, a Tampa Bay Times investigation has found.
First the Sheriff’s Office generates lists of people it considers likely to break the law, based on arrest histories, unspecified intelligence and arbitrary decisions by police analysts.
Then it sends deputies to find and interrogate anyone whose name appears, often without probable cause, a search warrant or evidence of a specific crime.
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It monitors and harasses families across the county.
Targeted
By KATHLEEN McGRORY and NEIL BEDI
Photos by DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD
Times staff
Sept. 3, 2020
Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco took office in 2011 with a bold plan: to create a cutting-edge intelligence program that could stop crime before it happened.
What he actually built was a system to continuously monitor and harass Pasco County residents, a Tampa Bay Times investigation has found.
First the Sheriff’s Office generates lists of people it considers likely to break the law, based on arrest histories, unspecified intelligence and arbitrary decisions by police analysts.
Then it sends deputies to find and interrogate anyone whose name appears, often without probable cause, a search warrant or evidence of a specific crime.
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