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NEW REPORT reveals how tech corporations bring the war on terror to our
neighborhoods

Over the last 20 years, the Department of Homeland Security has turned the
surveillance and policing of our cities into a $28 billion project, pouring
federal “counterterrorism” grant funds into policing and surveillance
technologies that militarize our communities while enriching some of the
biggest tech companies, a new report: _DHS Open for Business: How Tech
Corporations Bring the War on Terror to Our Neighborhoods [2]_ reveals.

The report, co-written by the Action Center on Race & the Economy,
LittleSis, MediaJustice, and the Surveillance, Tech, and Immigration
Policing Project at the Immigrant Defense Project, reveals how DHS
counterterrorism grant funding, like the Urban Area Security Initiative
(UASI), and the corporations which advocate for it drive demand for
“homeland security” and bring the War on Terror to our neighborhoods.

The research found that DHS fueled a massive influx of money into
surveillance and policing in our cities, under a banner of emergency
response and counterterrorism—and with the support of its corporate
partners like MICROSOFT, LEXISNEXIS, SHOTSPOTTER, PALANTIR, and MOTOROLA
SOLUTIONS.

Over the last twenty years, the President’s Budget for DHS ballooned from
$19.5 billion in 2002 to almost $100 billion in 2023, channeling much of
these funds to corporations. The report findings are focused on four
cities—Los Angeles, Boston, New York City, and Chicago—documenting how
UASI grants intensify local policing and benefit the multi-billion-dollar
corporations who advocate for funding DHS.

To learn more about these DHS grants and what we can do about them, read
_DHS Open for Business: How Tech Corporations Bring the War on Terror to
Our Neighborhoods [2]__ _and join the co-authors TODAY on Twitter [3] for a
live conversation at 1pm ET.

Solidarity,

LittleSis

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