Police Program Aims to Pinpoint Those Most Likely to Commit Crimes
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#2The picture illustrating the article seems to enforce racist stereotypes.
Re: Police Program Aims to Pinpoint Those Most Likely to Commit Crimes
#3The picture illustrating the article seems to enforce racist stereotypes.
It is a picture of a guy they are talking about in the article so I am not sure it is constructive to say it enforces racist stereotypes. It is not a lambda photography from Getty (or other) just used to fill some space.
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#4This illusion of efficacy, with often detrimental results, is nothing new[0]; a fatal naivety which ignores human agency.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_Tribes_Act
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#5>> But Mr. Brown, 29, got more than he had bargained for. A police captain presented a slide show featuring mug shots of people they were cracking down on. Up popped a picture of Mr. Brown linking him to a criminal group that had been implicated in a homicide.
“I was disturbed,” said Mr. Brown
Sounds like intimidation.
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#6What could possibly go wrong?
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#7I figure this will look good and "tough on crime" to the people seeing the news, but intimidation and preemptive punishment will not give people the self confidence they need to make a success of themselves in polite society.
Not to mention, I'm sure you can see how this is a breach of justice.
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#8"During an August call-in, the speakers told the men that this was their last chance. Tammy Dickinson, the United States attorney for the Western District of Missouri, related the story of a man in the program who was given a 15-year prison sentence for being caught with a bullet in his pocket."
So, yet again software is the new force-multiplier? Strict (IMNHO crazy) sentencing guides, arguably designed for the purpose of reducing crime by being a deterrent, now leads to even more filling up of prisons due to targeted (ab)use against certain groups?
On a side note, I wonder how these algorithms handle police brutality etc. I can just imagine sitting in such a meeting, and seeing a couple of police officers in full uniform popping up on that mugshot wall of shame...
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#9I'm a bit surprised noone brought up minority report. Philip K Dick living a good afterlife :-)
Re: Police Program Aims to Pinpoint Those Most Likely to Commit Crimes
#10I'm a bit surprised noone brought up minority report. Philip K Dick living a good afterlife :-)