A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media reveals DHS Border Patrol's secretive Predictive Intelligence Targeting Teams (PITT) analyzing Americans' financial activity and feeding intelligence to local police for traffic stops.
404 Media identified Predictive Intelligence Targeting Teams (PITT) in the Spokane Sector (Washington) and Laredo Sector (Texas), which review law enforcement-sensitive databases including Americans' financial activity and pass intelligence to local police. In one case, a PITT analyst flagged financial patterns associated with narcotics activity, leading Montana Highway Patrol to stop a driver for an obstructed license plate and charge him with DUI and possession with intent to distribute. CBP declined to say what financial data is monitored or whether warrants are obtained; the program extends AP's earlier reporting on ALPR-based predictive policing.
- PITT units operate in Spokane and Laredo Border Patrol sectors
- Financial-activity analysis fed intelligence to local police
- Driver stopped for obstructed plate, charged with DUI and distribution
- CBP declined to disclose data sources or warrant use
- Vendors
- 404 Media
- Threat actors
- Predictive Intelligence Targeting Teams (PITT)
- Victims
- Kyle William Olson
- Organizations
- DHSBorder PatrolCBPMontana Highway PatrolCenter For Democracy & TechnologyAssociated Press
- Countries
- United States
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404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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