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This is easy. What are we optimizing for? Crime fighting effectiveness of police officers. Can we measure that? Sure, it's number of convictions per officer
by 08-15 8y ago
This is easy. What are we optimizing for? Crime fighting effectiveness of police officers. Can we measure that? Sure, it's number of convictions per officer-hour of patrol.
You could have pointed out that number of arrests per area is the wrong measure and why. That would have been rational. Instead, you chose to drag identity politics into it. Brilliant.
- Forge36 8y agoI'm not saying "crime arrests per area is wrong". @xamuel explained it better than I could: >It's not that police shouldn't patrol where crime is highest--of course they should patrol there, if they know where that is. Rather, the point is that "most arrests" is not necessarily an accurate way to detect where crime is highest.
- 08-15 8y ago> I'm not saying "crime arrests per area is wrong". But that's what you should have said if you were making a rational argument. Instead you made it a political statement by playing the racism card.