upturn

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A 2020 study by the nonprofit Upturn found that at least 2,000 law enforcement agencies in all 50 states possess the technology to get into and extract data from locked phones.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2023

ProPublica helped design the research with Northeastern and Upturn and placed some additional ads of its own.

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2019

“This is the most important empirical study on the impact of police body-worn cameras to date,” said Harlan Yu from Upturn, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit consulting company that studies how technology affects social issues.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2017

Harlan Yu, a principal at Upturn, a consulting firm that evaluates police body-camera policies on a range of measures, agreed.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2017

Upturn, up-turn′, v.t. to turn up or upward: to throw up.—v.i. to turn up.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various