NYPD is using the internet to spy on gun owners and engage them in conversation.
Top intelligence officials in the New York Police Department met on Thursday to examine ways to search the Internet to identify potential “deranged” gunmen before they strike, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said. The NYPD Active Shooter: Recommendations & Analysis for Risk Mitigation Dec. 2012 Report.
“The techniques would include cyber-searches of language that mass-casualty shooters have used in e-mails and Internet postings,” Mr. Kelly said in a statement. “The goal would be to identify the shooter in cyberspace, engage him there and intervene, possibly using an undercover to get close, and take him into custody or otherwise disrupt his plans.”
Some might think this is a great idea but keep in mind, this is the same NYPD that nonsensically has a branch in Kfar Saba, Israel. Furthermore, in the not-so-distant past, an NYPD officer was thrown in a psychiatric ward by his superiors shortly after revealing systemic corruption in the NYPD and a couple was even arrested by the NYPD and detained for 23 hours simply for dancing.
Can we really trust a police department that has been busted for conducting illegal surveillance with finding and properly dealing with alleged potential “deranged” gunmen? How about one that has been busted embellishing their counterterrorism record? How about one that labels people “professional” agitators for legally filming police?
How about one that billed a mother for the cost of repairing the dent in an NYPD police cruiser caused by her son when he was killed by said cruiser? How about one that allegedly manufactured drug charges to meet quotas?
Suffice it to say, the NYPD should not be trusted with anything although they do seem to absolutely love surveillance.
One of the potential NYPD tactics mentioned by Browne includes creating an algorithm capable of searching the internet for “terms used by active shooters in the past that may be an indicator of future intentions.”
Kelly claimed that their method would be somewhat like that used to search for terrorism-related communications online.
According to Kelly, the technique would target “apolitical or deranged killers before they become active shooters,” although specific information was nearly nonexistent.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/21/nyregion/police-dept-to-use-internet-to-try-to-stop-shootings.html?ref=nyregion&_r=0
http://endthelie.com/2012/12/22/nypd-seeks-to-identify-potential-deranged-gunmen-by-monitoring-internet-chatter/#axzz2FrzroER5