LAPD has set up a "war room" to monitor crime in the city, which is, as it turns out, nothing more than a sophisticated CPU to monitor patterns in crime. It's hardly news. The implication behind the picture is that the USA is heading towards a police state, when in fact the article simply chronicles the rise of a branch of LAPD that analyzes crime data to determine where a criminal will next strike.
The headline doesn’t match the story. Drudge
Has done this for a while; make the tale
Appear as holy controversial grail
Of politics, and though I don’t begrudge
Embellishment when necessary, this –
The story in the headline, the police
Awash in riot gear, as if a peace
Were certain to be broken, the abyss
Of all of human evil to appear –
Is not at all the story that is writ.
The story isn’t big – the city gave
Computers to some analysts to save
The city from a paucity of wit
That here had threatened safety. And the Drudge,
Orwellian, is giving fear a nudge.
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