Across Indian Country, hyperscale data centers promise jobs, generational wealth, and broadband to Native Americans while demanding staggering amounts of land, power, and water—reviving a long history of extraction on Indigenous peoples and their homelands.

The criminal legal system is regularly used as a primary tool for managing social instability.Instead of addressing root causes, the system leans on policing, arrest, detention, supervision, and release as fast responses to homelessness, addiction, untreated mental illness, poverty, and survival-based behavior. In many cases, the system is not reacting to “crime” in any ordinary sense; it is transforming social need into criminal system involvement.

When Big Data Comes to Town

The City of Madison has pulled the 2025–2026 Annual Report created by the Office of the Independent Police Monitor (OIPM) due to public questioning and criticism of a report that appeared to be heavily created by Artificial Intelligence. Public Inquiry Project (PIP) dives into what exactly happened with the OIPM Annual Report.