George Joseph

George Joseph is a criminal justice reporter at The Appeal. His work has appeared in outlets such as ProPublica, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, and The Verge.

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IBM Used NYPD Surveillance Footage to Develop Technology That Lets Police Search by Skin Color

George Joseph, Kenneth Lipp — Sep. 6

New York City served as IBM’s “primary testing area” for developing software that enables police to search surveillance video footage for skin color.

Plainclothes NYPD Cops Are Involved in a Staggering Number of Killings

George Joseph, Liam Quigley — May. 9

Plainclothes police make up a tiny portion of the NYPD's force, but are involved in nearly a third of killings by police.

FBI Tracked an Activist Involved With Black Lives Matter as They Travelled Across the U.S., Documents Show

George Joseph, Murtaza Hussain — Mar. 19

Documents obtained by The Intercept indicate that the FBI surveilled Black Lives Matter activists — and that the Department of Homeland Security drafted a mysterious "race paper."

“Show Me Your Papers” Becomes “Open Your Eyes” as Border Sheriffs Expand Iris Surveillance

George Joseph — July 8 2017

Sheriffs’ departments from Brownsville to San Diego sign on to a free trial of iris recognition devices that will amass data on unauthorized immigrants.

Undercover Police Have Regularly Spied On Black Lives Matter Activists in New York

George Joseph — August 18 2015

Nearly 300 MTA documents confirm that undercover officers attended numerous Black Lives Matter protests in New York and that police have tracked their movements and kept individual photos of them on file.

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