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I'm trying to figure out what sort of intelligence would be collectable that isn't already.

Do you mean officer movements in-field? That's often done by protesters (I remember seeing examples of it during both the BLM protests and the WTO protests; police movements tracked by monitoring police scanners and updated in realtime to chatrooms and Twitter).

Do you mean who they are personally? As public servants, that's generally a matter of public record.

Do you mean camera recording of specific encounters? That's become best practice.

I think what you're describing is what we do now.

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Well as soon as a bunch of officers and politicians realize someone followed their every movement and we know where they buy their groceries, where they go to church, who their friends are, who their children are and what elementary school they attend, the route their 8 year old walks home after school and any other creepy but legal information one could easily obtain by surveillance in public. I don’t condone this type of action. But I also don’t believe we should be tracked across everything we do so perhaps doing something like this could send a message.

That might be the sort of message that, while it seems poignant and clever to thinking people, will be lost on the masses and actually end up backfiring and making things worse

Probably more describing tracking them in their personal off duty lives,and sharing personal details like address, their car, etc.

The likely consequence of which will be even more laws like Florida Statutes §119.071(4)(d)(2):

"2.a The home addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, and photographs of active or former sworn law enforcement personnel or of active or former civilian personnel employed by a law enforcement agency, including correctional and correctional probation officers, personnel of the Department of Children and Families whose duties include the investigation of abuse, neglect, exploitation, fraud, theft, or other criminal activities, personnel of the Department of Health whose duties are to support the investigation of child abuse or neglect, and personnel of the Department of Revenue or local governments whose responsibilities include revenue collection and enforcement or child support enforcement; the names, home addresses, telephone numbers, photographs, dates of birth, and places of employment of the spouses and children of such personnel; and the names and locations of schools and day care facilities attended by the children of such personnel are exempt from s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution."

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