It has been nearly two years, since I reported on the dangers of creating a law enforcement run Mental Health Assessment (MHA) program. In Texas, police use MHA’s to “screen” every person they have arrested for mental illness.
But the TAPS Act first introduced in January, would take law enforcement screenings to a whole new level. It would create a national threat assessment of children and adults.
In the course of six months the Threat Assessment, Prevention and Safety (TAPS) Act (H.R. 838) has seen support of the bill grow to nearly 80 Congress members.
National Threat Assessment Program announced during National Police Week
Politicians are master manipulators. What better way to garner public support for a national threat assessment program than to introduce it during National Police Week.
And who better to pick, than Congresswoman Katie Hill who laid it on thick as a KHTS article revealed.
“We do this first to honor the sacrifice of these men and women in blue, who put their life on the line every single day to protect us in the vital role that law enforcement plays in the safety and well-being of our communities and our districts,” said Babin in his opening statement. “And secondly to highlight a bipartisan solution — that we all are working on — to protect our communities and schools from the terrible acts of violence that we have seen, and are getting to be almost routine.”
Taken at face value, the TAPS Act sounds like a noble attempt to stop school shootings but not all is as it seems.
Crystal ball reading police to predict if you pose a future threat
The TAPS Act would encourage law enforcement to give everyone a personal threat assessment (kids and adults) and single out those that they deem as future threats. (Click here to see how our homes a given threat assessments.)
“By bringing threat assessment experts together, and utilizing evidence-based behavioral threat assessment and management processes, we can bolster public safety by implementing strategies to identify and stop dangerous individuals before they can commit an act of violence. We have the expertise to combat the targeted violence plaguing our schools, places of worship, and public spaces, but we have yet to fully implement it to prevent attacks.”
The TAPS Act has all the earmarks of a paranoid police state that considers everyone a potential threat.
The TAPS Act will create a “Joint Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management Task Force to identify individuals that exhibit patterns of dangerous behavior that MAY precede an act of targeted violence.”
According to Senators Marco Rubio, Kyrsten Sinemea and Thom Tillis, the TAPS Act will create a national behavioral threat assessment and management process for everyone.
Requires the Task Force’s recommendations for the development of the National Strategy to:
- Ensure consideration of the different needs and resources of communities across the country, and will not be construed as a national standard.
- Include recommendations for the most effective leveraging of existing Federal, State, local, and Tribal infrastructure, workforce, and experience.
- Include recommendations to increase collaboration between government agencies and private entities that focus on public safety responsibilities.
- Include recommendations on training programs to disseminate to State and Local entities.
- Include recommendations for a Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management School Violence Prevention Program to train and support a multi-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional behavioral threat assessment and management process for educational entities.
Bills like this means, America has joined paranoid government’s like China and Switzerland who consider kids to be potential threats.
“Last Wednesday the Swiss government proposed new laws aimed at preventing extremist violence and forcing people including children deemed a threat to be registered with authorities, with house arrest a last resort in some cases.”
Didn’t we learn anything from incarcerating Japanese Americans and the war against Communism?
The never-ending war on terror and the National Threat Assessment program should not be used as an excuse to destroy our Bill of Rights.
https://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2019/05/law-enforcements-national-threat.html
Two recent examples of how police predict crimes and spy on you and your family…
Police Use Lexis Nexis Facial Recognition To Identify Your Family And Friends:
LexisNexis, is one of the country’s largest collectors of personal information on individuals. They profit from collecting everyone’s Social Security Number, birth-date and much much more.
Lexis Nexis’s “Why Lumen Mobile” page allows police officers to use their smartphone or tablet to identify “a subject and get a clear view of his or her known associates, vehicles, and involvements.”
Lumen encourages police officers to spy on people…
“Wherever you are, you have instant access to information about people, vehicles, events, and locations at the click of a button.”
Politico warns that Lexis Nexis knows who your friends, family and roomates are and which insurance you have.
“Over the past year, powerful companies such as LexisNexis have begun hoovering up the data from insurance claims, digital health records, housing records, and even information about a patient’s friends, family and roommates, without telling the patient they are accessing the information, and creating risk scores for health care providers and insurers.”
https://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2019/05/police-use-lexis-nexis-facial.html
Police Use Drones To Spy On Suspicious People At Potential Crime Scenes:
For years, law enforcement has been claiming that drones will only be used for natural disasters, crime scene investigations, car accidents and rescue operations.
That is the bill of goods, being sold to the public but it is all a lie.
Last week, Click2Houston revealed that the MVPD is using drones to respond to home alarms and to identify suspicious people.
“Mark Kobelan, the mayor of Piney Point Village, recently had to call police for a possible suspicious person. Within seconds, a drone was overhead.”
https://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2019/04/police-use-drones-to-spy-on-suspicious.html
Facebook and cellphone companies know who your friends are, your credit worthiness and much more:
“Offered to select Facebook partners, the data includes not just technical information about Facebook members’ devices and use of Wi-Fi and cellular networks, but also their past locations, interests, and even their social groups. This data is sourced not just from the company’s main iOS and Android apps, but from Instagram and Messenger as well.”
According to one portion of the presentation, the Facebook mobile app harvests and packages eight different categories of information for use by over 100 different telecom companies in over 50 different countries around the world, including usage data from the phones of children as young as 13. These categories include use of video, demographics, location, use of Wi-Fi and cellular networks, personal interests, device information, and friend homophily, an academic term of art. A 2017 article on social media friendship from the Journal of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology defined “homophily” in this context as “the tendency of nodes to form relations with those who are similar to themselves.” In other words, Facebook is using your phone to not only provide behavioral data about you to cellphone carriers, but about your friends as well.
According to Joel Reidenberg, a professor and director of Fordham’s Center on Law and Information Policy, Facebook’s credit-screening business seems to inhabit a fuzzy nether zone with regards to the FCRA, neither matching the legal definition of a credit agency nor falling outside the activities the law was meant to regulate. “It sure smells like the prescreening provisions of the FCRA,” Reidenberg told The Intercept. “From a functional point of view, what they’re doing is filtering Facebook users on creditworthiness criteria and potentially escaping the application of the FCRA.” Reidenberg questioned the potential for Facebook to invisibly incorporate data on race, gender, or marital status in its screening process, exactly the sort of practice that made legislation like the FCRA necessary in the first place
https://theintercept.com/2019/05/20/facebook-data-phone-carriers-ads-credit-score/
“We have the expertise to combat the targeted violence plaguing our schools, places of worship, and public spaces, but we have yet to fully implement it to prevent attacks.”
You have a load of sh#t in your drawers, is what you have.
You have NO SUCH ‘EXPERTISE’, so STFU.
“The TAPS Act will create a “Joint Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management Task Force to identify individuals that exhibit patterns of dangerous behavior that MAY precede an act of targeted violence.”
In other words… ANYONE WHO BELIEVES THEY HAVE THE UNALIENABLE RIGHT TO BE FREE.