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Ali Winston

America’s Police Departments Getting Spying Equipment From Private Donors

There’s little public scrutiny when private donors pay to give police controversial technology and weapons. Sometimes, companies are donors to the same foundations that purchase their products for police.

October 14th, 2014
Ali Winston
October 14th, 2014
By Ali Winston

In 2007, as it pushed to build a state-of-the-art surveillance facility, the Los Angeles Police Department cast an acquisitive eye on software being developed by Palantir, a startup funded in part by the Central Intelligence Agency's venture capital arm. Originally designed for spy agencies, Palantir's technology allowed users to track

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