The Department of Homeland Security’s Predictive Policing Violates the Constitution and American Values, and Must End
The recent push by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to employ predictive policing tools that analyze Americans’ spending behavior has sparked a fierce debate about civil liberties, constitutional protections, and the very ethos of American democracy. At its core, the initiative seeks to mine data from credit‑card transactions, online purchases, and other financial records to infer an ind…
Sept. 18, 2026, 1 p.m.