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Private Donors Supply Spy Gear to Cops  

October 14, 2014

There\'s little public scrutiny when private donors pay to give police controversial technology and weapons. Sometimes, companies are donors to the same foundations that purchase their products for police

 

Ali Winston and Darwin Bond Graham, (Special To ProPublica)

 

In 2007, as it pushed to build a state-of-the-art surveillance facility, the Los Angeles Police Department cast an acquisitive eye on software being developed by Palantir, a startup funded in part by the Central Intelligence Agency\'s venture capital arm.

 

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