“Six police departments will participate in the initiative, which will gather surveillance videos and information from huge computer databases for use by a half-dozen ‘crime analysts.’ Those officials will identify so-called ‘hot spots’ and try to anticipate criminal activity before it occurs. This system is an adaptation of the ‘pattern-of-life’ analysis used by counter-insurgency forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. Beginning in 1994, the Fresno PD’s Violent Crime Suppression Unit, which describes itself as the department’s ‘special forces’ auxiliary conducted block-by-block house searches and saturation patrols in targeted neighborhoods.”
http://prolibertate.us/index.php/fresno-laboratory-for-martial-law?blog=7
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