DHS’s predictive policing is unconstitutional, un-American and should be stopped
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Coin Center’s Laz Pieper argues that the DHS’s predictive‑policing program, which flags Americans by analyzing their spending patterns to infer political views, violates constitutional protections and American values, constituting an unlawful financial‑system abuse; the controversy fuels broader debates over privacy, civil liberties and could pressure lawmakers to restrict surveillance‑driven law‑enforcement tools.
Targeting Americans based on what their spending habits can tell us about their politics is an abuse of our financial system, writes Coin Center’s Laz Pieper.