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Local police bureaucracies and carceral tech companies were also unable to procure the public money to fulfill their dream of integrating vast amounts of government surveillance data into expensive new cloud-based computing databases that would connect reservoirs of police data to facial and voice recognition software, license plate trackers, and proprietary behavior prediction algorithms.
After Officer Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown, these actors were savvy: they used a moment of public outrage and the many calls for change to get self-professed “progressives” in local and national government and well-meaning people in the general public to support one of the most lucrative expansions of surveillance technology in modern history.
How did they do it? As I show in this article, they portrayed Orwellian government surveillance infrastructure as a “reform” for police violence at a moment of extreme uncertainty over what had exactly happened to Brown.

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