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Ben Snyder

@benjaminhsnyder

Author of “Spy Plane: Inside Baltimore’s Surveillance Experiment” (2024 UC Press)/ Sociology at Williams College / surveillance, tech(nology), labor, inequality

Billsville but 💜 in Baltimore Katılım Ağustos 2014
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It's publication day for my new book Spy Plane: Inside Baltimore's Surveillance Experiment @ucpress. Let me tell you a bit about what's in it.
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“Slaveholders were often willing to pay a great deal of money to have an enslaved person incarcerated and tortured by a professional jailer.” buff.ly/3X1Mwat
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It was such an honor to chat with @bsoderberg.bsky.social at one of my favorite places on planet earth: @redemmas.org If you missed it, you can watch a recording here buff.ly/4gPOSkj
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Join @notrivia and me @redemmas on December 10th. We'll be talking about my new book Spy Plane: Inside Baltimore's Surveillance Experiment. RSVP here buff.ly/3AssgGU
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Folks also deserve an answer to why CCTV, Shotspotter, social media surveillance, etc. have not improved case closure rates or been the silver bullet for crime they were promised to be. Why is the city spending so much money on this stuff and not getting much in return?
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Couldn't agree more with this op-ed by outgoing Baltimore councilman Kristerfer Burnett. Baltimore needs community control over police technology to protect citizens' privacy rights, and this bill would have been a step in the right direction. buff.ly/4fID3Mi
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ATTN Qual Researchers: Here are some resources I’ve compiled on trauma-informed research practices. I used them to train my incredible team of RAs, who conducted 120+ interviews with violence-involved men in Chicago. As researchers of crime and poverty, we often bear witness to people’s most challenging moments—probing, documenting, and analyzing their experiences. This work demands careful reflection: how we approach it can either perpetuate harm or foster healing and connection. The solution isn’t to avoid tough questions but to thoughtfully consider their impact—on our subjects, ourselves, and our teams. I’m still learning and would love to hear from others with similar experiences. Let’s keep this conversation going—here or beyond—and collaborate on ways to share knowledge on this front. Access here: shorturl.at/jCyWt
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This is now giving them a second life domestically. They call sell their unreliable and glitchy product to NYPD a second time as something “new” and “cutting edge” bc it has just come off the battlefields abroad.
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Struggling companies like ShotSpotter have expanded internationally by jumping on the trend of merging lightweight drones with their sensors and weapons. Same tech, new packaging.
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Y’all know the imperial boomerang? That’s when a country’s military efforts abroad develop repressive techniques that are then brought back home and deployed on its own people. theguardian.com/technology/202…
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