predictive policing: Pasco County Sheriff's Office settles 'intelligence-led policing' program

Source: Florida Phoenix

Pasco County Sheriff’s Office settles ‘intelligence-led policing’ program

By: Mitch Perry - December 5, 2024 11:01 am

The Pasco County Sheriff’s Office has admitted in a settlement agreement made public on Wednesday that its policy of keeping a list of people considered likely to commit future crimes and sending deputies to their homes violated the U.S. Constitution.

As part of the settlement, the office will pay $105,000 to four Pasco County residents who were targeted by the law enforcement agency and is barred from implementing any similar program in the future.

The program, dubbed “Intelligent Led Policing” by the Sheriff’s Office and “predictive policing” by its critics, first came to light in a series of reports by the Tampa Bay Times in 2020. The paper reported that after Sheriff Chris Nocco took office in 2011, he created a “cutting-edge intelligence program” designed to stop crime before it happened, which led to the harassment of children and their families.

The Times found that Pasco County residents who got caught in the agency’s sights were placed on a list as potential criminals and subjected to harassment, often having deputies show up at odd hours. More than 12,500 times, the reporters found, deputies checked on the people identified by a departmental algorithm as targets.

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