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private data-driven policing will end up reinforcing any institutional racism under the guise of math

• MikkoFinell 9y ago
  Thank you pc-bot for reminding us that math is racist.
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• s_m_t 9y ago
  Allowing environments where violent criminals and murderers are allowed to thrive IS institutional racism
  • uoaei 9y ago
    And giving officers the ability to claim anyone fits within that tiny subset of the population based on spurious correlations is institutional racism. Protect the innocent, or sacrifice them for the good of catching some baddies?
• aaronbrethorst 9y ago
  99% Invisible had a great episode that touched on this last Fall. Well worth 20 minutes of your time: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-age-of-the-algorithm/ https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-age-of-the-algori...
  • flother 9y ago
    And Cathy O’Neil's book Weapons of Math Destruction, mentioned in the episode, is also well worth reading. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0141985410 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0141985410
• imaginenore 9y ago
  Letting criminals go based on a race is institutional racism. We should treat people equally. If you commit a crime and get caught, you should be prosecuted and imprisoned.
• manjushri 9y ago
  Lest we forget: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust