These days law enforcement agencies partner up with firms like Clearview[1] that mine data on individuals from the internet and build digital dossiers on them.
A story about someone getting their mined information from Clearview made the front page of HN[2] last year.
It is entirely possible that such firms are running sentiment analysis on social media posts, or analyzing likes and shares, to profile suspects as "anti-police" or not.
A story about someone getting their mined information from Clearview made the front page of HN[2] last year.
It is entirely possible that such firms are running sentiment analysis on social media posts, or analyzing likes and shares, to profile suspects as "anti-police" or not.
[1] https://clearview.ai/law-enforcement
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22681207