The Downside to Surveilling Your Neighbors In one town, police say products like Nextdoor and Ring are helping fight crime. But racism and vigilantism are pervasive on safety platforms By: Todd Feathers In late August, a resident of Mobile, Ala., posted a video on Nextdoor, a social media app that advertises itself as a place…
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Cameras, Drones and X-Ray Vans: How 9/11 Transformed the N.Y.P.D. Forever
Ali Watkins reports: It was an unusual forearm tattoo that the police said led them to Luis Reyes, a 35-year-old man who was accused of stealing packages from a Manhattan building’s mailroom in 2019. But the truth was more complicated: Mr. Reyes had first been identified by the New York Police Department’s powerful facial recognition…
NC: Charters call health director’s actions ‘inappropriate’ after requesting student records amid Covid outbreak
Johanna F. Still reports: After deputies served “control measure orders” at two charter schools in Brunswick County, the schools’ leadership penned a letter to the board of commissioners this week to alert them of “inappropriate and precipitous” actions taken by the county health director. Last month county health director Cris Harrelson authorized two health orders…
In 5-4 vote, Supreme Court leaves Texas abortion ban in place
Amy Howe reports: Nearly 24 hours after a Texas law that bans nearly all abortions in the state went into effect, the Supreme Court on Wednesday confirmed what it had previously only implied through its failure to act the night before: The court rejected a request to block enforcement of the law, which abortion providers…