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Overall, sheriff patrol officers spend significantly more time on officer-initiated stops – “proactive policing” in law enforcement parlance – than they do responding to community members’ calls for help, according to the report. Research has shown that the practice is a fundamentally ineffective public safety strategy, the report pointed out.

Frustrating that we only ever talk about increasing police manpower and budgets even on the left.

“Making surveillance tech interactive is a really good way of bringing attention to it,” Kolman told PCMag. “It's one thing to understand that cameras are everywhere but… I want to show how to live under these systems and how to resist them.”

When life gives you a surveillance state, make surveillancestateade.