The rise of multiple artificial intelligences (AIs) and predictive analytics has transformed American law enforcement into a highly sophisticated system of surveillance and control, disproportionately targeting Black and Brown communities. These data-driven approaches, justified as crime prevention, have instead functioned as tools for wealth extraction, enriching the legal class structure at the expense of marginalized populations. The tenure of James Comey as FBI Director (2013–2017) exemplifies how AI-driven predictive policing evolved under the guise of public safety while perpetuating systemic economic disparities.
Predictive policing utilizes machine learning models, neural networks, and other AI-driven techniques to identify “high-crime” areas, which overwhelmingly correlate with historically over-policed Black and Brown neighborhoods. Artificial intelligence algorithms using logistic regression, support vector machines (SVMs), and neural networks have been trained on biased datasets, reinforcing racial profiling. By directing disproportionate law enforcement resources to these areas, officials create a self-fulfilling prophecy where more arrests and citations lead to an apparent justification for further policing, reinforcing the cycle of criminalization.
The legal class, encompassing police departments, prosecutors, private attorneys, and the judiciary, has reaped enormous financial benefits from this AI-driven system. Asset forfeiture laws have allowed law enforcement agencies to seize property and funds from residents, often without due process, turning police forces into revenue-generating entities. Additionally, the mass arrests facilitated by predictive policing have fueled a for-profit legal apparatus, sustaining bail bondsmen, court fees, and private prison contracts.
Fifth-generation warfare (5GW) represents a new era of conflict where traditional battlefields are replaced by digital landscapes, psychological manipulation, and algorithmic control. Unlike previous generations of warfare, which relied on physical force, 5GW weaponizes information, artificial intelligence, and predictive analytics to shape perceptions, control populations, and extract resources without direct combat. In the context of predictive policing, AI-driven surveillance systems operate as instruments of this silent war, targeting marginalized communities under the pretense of law enforcement while systematically dismantling their economic and social structures. This type of warfare blurs the lines between government authority, corporate interests, and social engineering, allowing those in power to maintain dominance without overt oppression—turning policing into a battlefield where data, rather than bullets, dictates the terms of engagement.
In-Q-Tel, originally created to equip the intelligence community with cutting-edge technologies, has backed ventures that are leveraged to fortify mass surveillance. From satellite tracking to predictive AI data analytics, these tools erode the very notion of personal privacy, transforming freedom into little more than a whisper drowned out by constant digital scrutiny. In-Q-Tel (IQT), formerly Peleus and In-Q-It, is an American not-for-profit venture capital firm based in Arlington, Virginia. It invests in companies to keep the Central Intelligence Agency, and other intelligence agencies, equipped with the latest in information technology in support of United States intelligence capability. The name “In-Q-Tel” is an intentional reference to Q, the fictional inventor who supplies technology to James Bond. Originally named Peleus and known as In-Q-It, In-Q-Tel was founded by Norm Augustine, a former CEO of Lockheed Martin, and by Gilman Louie, who was In-Q-Tel’s first CEO.
In-Q-Tel’s mission is to identify and invest in companies developing cutting-edge technologies that serve United States national security interests. According to the Washington Post, In-Q-Tel started as the idea of then CIA director George Tenet. Congress approved funding for In-Q-Tel, which was increased in later years. Origins of the corporation can also be traced to Ruth A. David, who headed the Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Science & Technology in the 1990s and promoted the importance of rapidly advancing information technology for the CIA. In-Q-Tel now engages with entrepreneurs, growth companies, researchers, and venture capitalists to deliver technologies that provide superior capabilities for the CIA, DIA, NGA, and the wider intelligence community. In-Q-Tel concentrates on three broad commercial technology areas: software, infrastructure and materials sciences. Former CIA director George Tenet said, We [the CIA] decided to use our limited dollars to leverage technology developed elsewhere. In 1999 we chartered … In-Q-Tel. … While we pay the bills, In-Q-Tel is independent of CIA. CIA identifies pressing problems, and In-Q-Tel provides the technology to address them. The In-Q-Tel alliance has put the Agency back at the leading edge of technology … This … collaboration … enabled CIA to take advantage of the technology that Las Vegas uses to identify corrupt card players and apply it to link analysis for terrorists [the parallel data-mining effort by the SOCOM-DIA operation Able Danger], and to adapt the technology that online booksellers use and convert it to scour millions of pages of documents looking for unexpected results.
Larry Ellison Envisions An American Digital Rapture
Lawrence Joseph Ellison is an American businessman and entrepreneur who co-founded software company Oracle Corporation. He was Oracle’s chief executive officer from 1977 to 2014 and is now its chief technology officer and executive chairman. As of January 20, 2025, he is the fourth-wealthiest person in the world, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with an estimated net worth of US$188 billion, and the second-wealthiest in the world according to Forbes, with an estimated net worth of $237 billion. Ellison is also known for his ownership of 98% of Lānaʻi, the sixth-largest island in the Hawaiian Islands.
Ellison, who barely completed a semester in college, envisions transforming America into a digital Rapture. Through Oracle, his tech empire, he proposes a future where AI-driven surveillance systems operate with unblinking vigilance, turning every citizen into an entry in a vast database. “Citizens will be on their best behavior,” he boasts, his words echoing those of an overreaching authority rather than an innovator. Instead of fostering freedom, his vision veers toward control, a world where privacy is extinct, replaced by relentless observation. Fueling this dystopian ambition is the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), whose covert technological investments through In-Q-Tel have historically nudged America closer to an Orwellian surveillance state. Through In-Q-Tel, the agency’s tech venture arm, they’ve been feeding the beast, investing in technologies that have turned America into a surveillance state, where freedom is just a whisper in a room full of listening devices. The CIA, ever the puppeteer, pulls strings behind the scenes, turning the American dream into a nightmare where every shadow could be watching.
Sullivan & Cromwell: The U.S. Department of Justice’s NAZI Legal Enforcers
Adding an ominous legal backbone to U.S. Department of Justice’s ambitions is Sullivan & Cromwell, a law firm with a history as murky as the deepest ocean trench. Once involved in facilitating Nazi Germany’s arms buildup and orchestrating geopolitical coups, the firm’s modern role includes crafting legal frameworks that ensure Ellison’s dystopian dream is not just a fantasy but a fortified reality. Their expertise in legal loopholes ensures that resistance is silenced long before it reaches the streets.
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP is an American multinational law firm headquartered in New York City. Sullivan & Cromwell’s lawyers have been involved in various controversies, including insider trading scandals, work with tobacco companies, and criticism for its role in the FTX cryptocurrency exchange collapse. It is one of the most profitable law firms in the world, with 2021 profits per partner exceeding $6 million and profits per lawyer exceeding $1.3 million.
Under Foster Dulles, the traitorous law firm assisted Nazi Germany’s arms buildup effort by incorporating the German chemical company I.G. Farben into an international nickel cartel alongside American, Canadian, and French companies. By the 1940s, I.G. Farben relied on slave labor from concentration camps, including 30,000 from Auschwitz, and was involved in medical experiments on inmates at both Auschwitz and Mauthausen. One of its subsidiaries, BASF, would later supply the poison gas Zyklon B, which was used to killed over one million people in gas chambers during the Holocaust. Once the Allies seized the company at the end of the war in 1945, US authorities put 23 IG Farben directors on trial for war crimes, with 13 ultimately convicted.
Sullivan & Cromwell’s involvement in the 1954 coup d’état in Guatemala is well documented. At the time, the firm represented the United Fruit Company (UFC), which had major holdings in Guatemala. UFC used its lobbying power, through the firm and through other means, to convince President Eisenhower, as well as Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, and his brother, CIA director Allen Dulles, both former partners of the firm, to depose the democratically elected President of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz.
James Comey’s Role and AI’s Expansion in Policing
James Comey’s leadership of the FBI under the Obama administration coincided with a period of heightened AI-driven policing. His confirmation as FBI Director in 2013 came with a mandate to modernize the agency’s technological capabilities, aligning with broader trends in law enforcement that sought to integrate machine learning and neural networks into policing strategies.
Comey’s statements on policing in Black communities provide insight into the ideology that underpinned predictive policing. In a 2015 speech at Georgetown University, he acknowledged historical injustices but justified continued police focus on Black neighborhoods by citing high crime rates. Later that year, he defended aggressive policing strategies, stating, “These are the guys we lock up because they are the predators choking off the life of a community.” This rationale framed mass incarceration as a necessary intervention, ignoring the systemic forces driving crime, such as economic disenfranchisement and lack of educational opportunities.
The Obama administration’s approach to law enforcement reinforced these trends. While body-worn cameras and police accountability measures were championed, the administration also expanded the use of AI-driven analytics in policing. The FBI’s investment in deep learning models, reinforcement learning, and real-time data processing during Comey’s tenure further entrenched predictive policing models, accelerating the economic extraction from Black and Brown communities.
AI, Predictive Analytics, and Economic Consequences
The financial burden of AI-driven predictive policing disproportionately falls on low-income Black and Brown residents. Machine learning-based civil asset forfeiture, where police seize money and property without requiring a conviction, has stripped wealth from these communities, redirecting it to law enforcement budgets. Court fees, fines, and probation costs create additional economic barriers, ensuring that those ensnared by the system remain in cycles of financial precarity.
Moreover, AI-based over-policing of Black and Brown neighborhoods has fueled the expansion of the private prison industry, where legal professionals profit from prolonged incarceration. AI models using Bayesian probability and reinforcement learning have been used to determine sentencing risk, often recommending harsher sentences for marginalized individuals based on biased historical data. The resulting criminal records hinder employment opportunities, further entrenching economic inequality and ensuring a steady supply of individuals for the legal system to process.
Under the guise of public safety, multiple artificial intelligences and predictive analytics have become sophisticated mechanisms for wealth extraction, benefiting the legal class while devastating Black and Brown communities. James Comey’s tenure as FBI Director saw the entrenchment of these AI-driven policies, with machine learning models weaponized to justify intensified law enforcement in marginalized areas. The economic impact of this system is clear, it transfers wealth from over-policed communities to police departments, courts, and private entities that thrive on mass incarceration.
If the United States is to address these injustices, it must dismantle the financial incentives driving AI-driven predictive policing and reinvest in policies that uplift rather than criminalize. Until then, the legal class will continue to prosper at the expense of those it claims to protect.
The Author received an honorable discharge from the U.S. Navy where he utilized regional anesthesia and pain management to treat soldiers injured in combat at Walter Reed Hospital. The Author is passionate about medical research and biotechnological innovation in the fields of 3D printing, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
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