Defund the Police, but Don’t Replace It With Surveillance Tech

In order to stop a power grab from surveillance companies and tech giants, we need to define what policing is

Tim Maughan
OneZero
Published in
7 min readJun 24, 2020

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Officers watch the streets of Camden, NJ on high definition monitors from the city’s police headquarters on May 24, 2017. Photo: Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images

The weeks of uprisings across America in response to the police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, and countless others have been overshadowed by just one…

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Tim Maughan
OneZero
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Writer. Debut novel INFINITE DETAIL out now on FSG. Bylines at BBC, Motherboard, New Scientist. http://timmaughanbooks.com