Comment by whimsicalism
3 days ago
Edited title to be more sensationalist - this is a Seattle local thing
> The Seattle Shield website states that its mission “is to provide a collaborative and information-sharing environment between the Seattle Police Department and public/private partners in the Seattle area. Seattle Shield members assist Seattle Police Department efforts to identify, deter, defeat or mitigate potential acts of terrorism by reporting suspicious activity in a timely manner.”
That network is shared with police departments in cities outside Seattle per the article.
I encourage people imagining this as some high-scale surveillance dragnet to look at the Seattle Shield website and form their opinions https://seattleshield.org/default.aspx?MenuItemID=53&MenuGro...
ah, yes, the little 8-line explanation there by the entity in question absolutely clears them of all suspicion, really.
i am sure that information obtained by seattle shield is not shared to anyone outside of seattle borders. police departments and the FBI are not known to share information, after all. police are especially cagey about sharing with other agencies when it comes to counter-terrorism.
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Good thing that ICE has such a stellar reputation of not pushing the agenda of the national government into local affairs!
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Interesting. You should write an article about this and post it on HN. This article is about an unfunded website run by someone at the Seattle PD.