Vendors Train Police to Monitor Protesters

A growing number of private surveillance vendors are not just selling cameras and sensors but actively training law enforcement to stitch those feeds with ALPRs, 911 logs, floor plans, and drones into real‑time dashboards for policing events, including political protests. Those trainings normalize continuous, multi‑source monitoring of lawful assembly and reframe public‑safety tools as crowd‑management and intelligence platforms. — If vendors teach police how to surveil political protest, it accelerates private control over civic surveillance, raises constitutional and accountability questions, and shifts the regulatory focus from discrete devices to vendor–police operating systems.