"The plan involves moving the city's existing police tech hub from the public Hall of Justice not to the city's brand-new police headquarters but instead to a sublet in the Financial District building of Ripple Labs, Larsen's crypto-transfer company. Although the city reportedly won't be paying for the space , the lease reportedly cost Ripple $2.3 million and will last until December 2026. The deal will also include a $7.25 million gift from the San Francisco Police Community Foundation that Larsen created."
"Police foundations are semi-public fundraising arms of police departments that allow them to buy technology and gear that the city will not give them money for. In Los Angeles, the city's police foundation got $178,000 from the company Target to pay for the services of the data analytics company Palantir to use for predictive policing. In Atlanta, the city's police foundation funds a massive surveillance apparatus as well as the much-maligned Cop City training complex ."
Chris Larsen provided $9.4 million to establish a Real-Time Investigations Center and arranged for the city's police tech hub to move into a sublet in Ripple Labs' Financial District building rather than the new police headquarters. The lease reportedly cost Ripple $2.3 million through December 2026 and the San Francisco Police Community Foundation Larsen created contributed $7.25 million. Police foundations enable departments to acquire technology and gear outside regular city budgets. Similar foundation-funded surveillance and analytics projects have occurred in Los Angeles and Atlanta. The arrangement raises concerns about opaque, unaccountable private funding of surveillance and expanded policing.
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