DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits

Border Patrol operates secretive predictive policing units called Predictive Intelligence Targeting Teams (PITT) that analyze Americans' financial data and other information to identify people for local police stops, even when no specific crime is suspected. Located in sectors like Spokane, Washington and Laredo, Texas, these units feed intelligence to local authorities who then conduct traffic stops under pretexts like obstructed license plates, raising concerns about using "parallel construction" to mask unconstitutional profiling. Security experts argue that this practice violates due process since probable cause cannot be "synthetically generated" from financial analysis alone.