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I can't help but disagree with your 99.999% assessment. I feel like at best it might be 50%. At which point, it's horrible for society to be rolling the dice o
by wonder_er 9y ago
I can't help but disagree with your 99.999% assessment.
I feel like at best it might be 50%. At which point, it's horrible for society to be rolling the dice on every person in prison, if they should be there or not.
I would refer you to the Innocence Project [0] for a useful exposition of wrongful convictions, and error rates therein.
[0] https://www.innocenceproject.org/cases/ https://www.innocenceproject.org/cases/
- danschumann 9y agoI don't know, I feel like neighborhoods where no one has outstanding warrants would be more desirable than neighborhoods with many.
- deegles 9y agoWhat if turns out those neighborhoods paid to have no convictions?
- kahnjw 9y agoHave you heard of the precision/recall tradeoff?
- thatcat 9y agoYou're making a false comparision between none and many when it seems like a few would be a much nicer place to live after accounting for civil offenses and the points made by parent. This technology puts a human face to technological surveillance, there has to be some minimum psychological cost for everyone there which may outweigh the claimed benefits.
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- analog31 9y agoDo we even know what an "outstanding warrant" consists of in China? Granted, I may be naieve about what it represents in the US, but I hope it's something that comes from a reasonably transparent and fair process. In a totalitarian state, it could mean something else. The question becomes: Who is being rounded up, and why? This seems more important than the specific technology used. I happen to live in a neighborhood where the very presence of a police officer would attract notice.