A private consultancy group that works closely with law enforcement agencies across the country to help them come up with new policing tec...
A private consultancy group that works closely with law enforcement agencies across the country to help them come up with new policing techniques is pushing for police departments everywhere to establish special "misinformation" and "disinformation" units to tackle free speech.
Lexipol, as the group is called, published a rallying cry at Police1.com that rhetorically asks all law enforcement units across America whether or not they are "prepared (for) the battle against mis / disinformation."
Boasting contracts with more than 8,100 law enforcement agencies in 35 states, Lexipol uses "privatized police policymaking" techniques to transform public-serving peace officers into bootlicking private interest-serving tyrants. In this case, the company aims to turn ordinary police officers into politically correct speech enforcers.
Lexipol wants its "subscribers" in the law enforcement community to "collaborate with tech companies and civil society organizations to develop early-warning systems and identify harmful content in real time."
"This can be read as brazen defiance of the ongoing efforts, including in the US Congress, to put an end to just such 'collaboration' between private and government (here, law enforcement) entities – investigated in one instance as government-Big Tech collusion," writes Didi Rankovic for Reclaim the Net.
"But Lexipol's write-up plays on fears that it is 'disinformation' that might increase public hostility toward police officers and put them at greater risk."
Turning the police into snitches
In usual form, Lexipol really plays up the scaremongering about Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, describing these nations as "soft targets" that spread misinformation and disinformation. The only way to keep America "protected" from these countries is for police departments to develop "proactive strategies" against free speech.
What Lexipol is proposing differs very little from what the White House has been asking of social media companies like Facebook ever since Donald Trump took the political stage around 2016. The only difference is that police departments would be the ones to establish entire units "charged with identifying false information, fact-checking claims, and creating counter-narratives."
Lexipol is also concerned about artificial intelligence (AI) and how it might facilitate the spread of misinformation and disinformation, which it says "can significantly disrupt policing."
"When police officers, just like any other community members, are exposed to false information, and when they unknowingly share it, they contribute to spreading the mistrust," Lexipol says. "This in turn could undermine the officers' ability to make impartial decisions, particularly in politically charged situations."
The Jan. 6, 2021, "insurrection" was fueled, according to Lexipol, by "disinformation and misinformation about election fraud, leading to unprecedented violence and overwhelming police operations at the Capitol."
"Some officers were even perceived as sympathetic to the rioters, further eroding public confidence in law enforcement's impartiality," Lexipol claims.
"The incident not only highlighted how misinformation and disinformation can lead to large-scale violence, but how it can lead to the underestimation of the threat, thus complicating the appropriate planning and allocation of police resources. To prevent similar occurrences, police leaders must establish systems that counter disinformation and ensure officers remain both neutral and effective."
Public trust in government is already at an all-time low, and what Lexipol is proposing will only further erode what little trust remains. If We the People are forced to watch our police officers become free speech snitches in order to protect the evil empire, that trust could disappear entirely.
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