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The Red Nation Podcast

#AbolishAPD: Blue Leaks w/ Keegan & David

The Red Nation Podcast

The Red Nation

Society & Culture, History

4.8943 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Researchers Keegan James Sarmiento Kloer and David Correia (@AbolishAPD) discuss Blue Leaks, a data dump that shows corporate-public partnerships between big box retailers and the Albuquerque Police Department. The privatized police database was used for political influence and so much more.

Further reading:

https://www.abolishapd.org/post/albuquerque-police-engaged-in-secret-intelligence-gathering-operation-leaked-documents-show

https://www.abolishapd.org/post/apd-nmoag-nsa

Transcript

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0:00.0

The So, So we're back with Abolish APD to discuss a new story about leaked documents that reveal the Albuquerque

0:38.6

Police Department engaging in a large-scale data and intelligence gathering operation which has been going on since 2006 and has been carried out by private citizens as well as corporate partners here in the city.

0:52.0

And so this privatization of data as well as corporate partners here in the city.

0:52.5

And so this privatization of data gathering means

0:56.4

the Albuquerque Police Department has avoided community oversight,

0:59.8

which I think is something that this current, you know,

1:03.5

city administration has emphasized

1:05.9

with the, you know, with the police oversight board,

1:08.0

etc, through the police reforms that are happening and also judicial review in the

1:14.7

acquisition of this information some of which would have required as as my

1:21.6

guest today will argue David and Keegan from Abolish APD, which would have required

1:28.1

a warrant to collect this data.

1:30.8

So in addition to documents show, in addition documents show this operation has been used on at least two occasions

1:38.4

for explicitly political purposes.

1:44.2

So thank you David for coming back on the show in Keegan.

1:48.6

I'll turn it over to you to maybe introduce yourselves.

1:51.1

We can start with you Kee, and then go to David.

1:54.0

Hi, yeah, my name is Keegan, and I'm a member of Abolish-HPD here in Albuquerque.

1:59.4

Yeah, I'm David Kerea. I'm also a member of Abolish A.

2:04.1

Cool.

2:06.1

So Keegan, can you maybe start with a summary of the story and its importance with the current research that Abolish APD is doing right now.

2:16.0

Yeah, so kind of as you mentioned in the in the introduction,

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