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As of 2016, the Stoughton Police Department was in the process of integrating their field interviews, arrest, complaint, accident, and citation reports, and other information into COPLINK, a surveillance and criminalization platform developed by IBM and the software company i2 which has been called "google for police officers." The Stoughton Police Department is presumably now utilizing COPLINK to share this information, as well as to access information from other police departments in MA and nationwide. Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "have direct access to the Massachusetts version of the COPLINK system," enabling ICE agents to access any information Stoughton Police Department officials enter into COPLINK and utilize this information to facilitate ICE's regime of tracking, detentions, and deportations.
As of 2016, the Stoughton Police Department was being integrated into COPLINK, a surveillance and criminalization platform developed by IBM and the software company i2. The Stoughton Police Department is presumably now integrated into COPLINK and sharing field interviews, arrest, complaint, accident, citation reports, and other information in the database. Agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "have direct access to the Massachusetts version of the COPLINK system," enabling ICE to access any information Stoughton Police Department officers enter into COPLINK and utilize this information to facilitate ICE's regime of tracking, detentions, and deportations.
The Stoughton Police Department is listed as a full member of the Greater Boston Police Council, a "law enforcement council" (LEC) set up in the 1970s to link regional police forces and share resources for policing anti-war protests. LECs in Massachusetts have played a central role in militarizing police by organizing SWAT teams and purchasing military equipment such as Lenco Bearcats and other armored vehicles.
The Stoughton Police Department is a member agency of the Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council (Metro LEC). Chief of the Stoughton Police Department Donna McNamara serves as a member of Metro LEC's Executive Board. Like other Law Enforcement Councils (LECs) in Massachusetts, Metro LEC functions to increase regional collaboration between police and sheriff's departments, while organizing SWAT teams and obtaining military equipment for use by its member agencies and operating largely out of public view as a semi-private organization.