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Post by kevincox »

tiernano wrote: post #3

On a different but similar idea, I had the idea of using dashcam footage to read petrol station (gas stations for you lot over the pond) signs and get info about pricing for fuel. You could reduce the amount of processing required by only looking for pricing info near a station based on gps. My blackview dashcam stores the video along with gps on a microsd card and it can be accessed using a http connection when on w…

At least in Canada gas prices are available in Google Maps. IDK where this data comes from but I wonder if it is publicly available (or at least can be scraped from Google). It isn't 100% reliable but is very good, maybe 95% accurate?

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Post by jareklupinski »

tjpnz wrote: post #7

>Areas with more police vehicle images included wealthy commercial zones and low-income neighborhoods with higher proportions of Black and Latino residents. Does this really surprise anyone? Lower income areas have more crime. I don't understand why race is a factor here.

> Among the researchers’ findings: Gramercy Park, in Midtown Manhattan, had the most police vehicles visible in dashcam images -- almost 20 times more than Arden Heights/Rossville, in southern Staten Island, which had the fewest.

the residential neighborhood with a quarter mil average income and a literal private garden has the most visible police presence in the city

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Post by dr_petes »

tjpnz wrote: post #7

>Areas with more police vehicle images included wealthy commercial zones and low-income neighborhoods with higher proportions of Black and Latino residents. Does this really surprise anyone? Lower income areas have more crime. I don't understand why race is a factor here.

You could argue that those areas have more crime because they have a disproportionate amount of cops to observe crime.

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Post by rkangel »

tiernano wrote: post #3

On a different but similar idea, I had the idea of using dashcam footage to read petrol station (gas stations for you lot over the pond) signs and get info about pricing for fuel. You could reduce the amount of processing required by only looking for pricing info near a station based on gps. My blackview dashcam stores the video along with gps on a microsd card and it can be accessed using a http connection when on w…

This is going to be sorted in the UK through legal means rather than your clever technical workaround: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66085232

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Post by fkyoureadthedoc »

tjpnz wrote: post #7

>Areas with more police vehicle images included wealthy commercial zones and low-income neighborhoods with higher proportions of Black and Latino residents. Does this really surprise anyone? Lower income areas have more crime. I don't understand why race is a factor here.

Perhaps they are saying that it's not universal to low income areas, and that low income areas that don't have a higher proportion of Black and Latino residents don't have the increased police vehicle presence? Hard to tell based on the wording there alone.

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Post by policepost »

tjpnz wrote: post #7

>Areas with more police vehicle images included wealthy commercial zones and low-income neighborhoods with higher proportions of Black and Latino residents. Does this really surprise anyone? Lower income areas have more crime. I don't understand why race is a factor here.

Presumably because low income white neighborhoods did not receive the same treatment. At least that's the inference I drew.

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Post by protonbob »

dr_petes wrote: post #13
tjpnz wrote: post #7

>Areas with more police vehicle images included wealthy commercial zones and low-income neighborhoods with higher proportions of Black and Latino residents. Does this really surprise anyone? Lower income areas have more crime. I don't understand why race is a factor here.

You could argue that those areas have more crime because they have a disproportionate amount of cops to observe crime.

And that would be a poor argument. Common sense would say otherwise.

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Post by konschubert »

dr_petes wrote: post #13
tjpnz wrote: post #7

>Areas with more police vehicle images included wealthy commercial zones and low-income neighborhoods with higher proportions of Black and Latino residents. Does this really surprise anyone? Lower income areas have more crime. I don't understand why race is a factor here.

You could argue that those areas have more crime because they have a disproportionate amount of cops to observe crime.

You could say that, but you would look quite silly.

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Post by [deleted] »

policepost wrote: post #16
tjpnz wrote: post #7

>Areas with more police vehicle images included wealthy commercial zones and low-income neighborhoods with higher proportions of Black and Latino residents. Does this really surprise anyone? Lower income areas have more crime. I don't understand why race is a factor here.

Presumably because low income white neighborhoods did not receive the same treatment. At least that's the inference I drew.

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