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.”

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jedahan an hour ago | parent | next [-]

That network is shared with police departments in cities outside Seattle per the article.

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whimsicalism an hour ago | parent [-]

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...

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john_strinlai 25 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

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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whimsicalism 9 minutes ago | parent [-]

I'm just encouraging people to look at the website itself, not actually the particular blurb I linked

	▲	john_strinlai 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		the 8 line blurb is the entire website, minus the membership signup and login. am i missing something?

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jedahan 36 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Not sure if you meant to reply here?

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shevy-java an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

You have Trump. You see how he is surrounded by the superrich.

You have Palantir.

You still think this is "sensationalist"? I don't think so. The assumption here is that you wish to isolate this onto Seattle only. I think this is global instead. By focusing only on Seattle we lose the wider picture. Anyone remembers how people were surprised that Facebook connects offline-data to accounts? It's why they are more accurately called Spybook.

	▲	whimsicalism an hour ago \| parent [-]
		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.