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Pasco’s sheriff uses data to guess who will commit crime. Then deputies ‘hunt down’ and harass them.
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...…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...WW…
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