DHS’s predictive policing violates the Constitution, contradicts American values, and must end
The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) foray into predictive policing—particularly its practice of mining financial transaction data to infer political affiliations—raises profound constitutional, ethical, and practical concerns. At its core, this approach treats every dollar spent as a potential clue to a citizen’s ideology, then uses that clue to determine whether the individual merits fur…
Sept. 18, 2026, 1 p.m.