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In what manner is it problematic? No one is being punished by the system predicting that they will commit a crime.
by oh_sigh 6y ago
In what manner is it problematic? No one is being punished by the system predicting that they will commit a crime.
- core-questions 6y agoIt's problematic because of the demographics of the areas and of the people who are predicted to commit crimes, of course. If the system doesn't spit out a perfectly egalitarian, proportional representation of the population down to an infinite level of granularity, it must be wrong; just like all the other machine learning systems that have been revealed to have incredible bias by similarly pointing out things that agree with observable, measured reality.
- mLuby 6y agoSo you would be okay with police driving behind you for years, waiting for you to make a mistake? Uneven application of even a just law is still unjust, and also undermines trust in the justice system.
- oh_sigh 6y agoAgain... is tracking and following potential future-criminals actually what this tech is used for?
- Ensorceled 6y agohttps://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/police-pasco-sheriff-targeted/intelligence-led-policing/ https://projects.tampabay.com/projects/2020/investigations/p...
- lawnchair_larry 6y agoThis doesn’t do either of those things.
- JamisonM 6y ago> No one is being punished by the system predicting that they will commit a crime. It seems very obvious to me that any system that would send the police to my door to question me when I have not in fact committed any nor am suspected of any actual crime that has occured it is punishing me. The inconvenience alone is a punishment. The increased probability that I will have some unrelated matter used against me is a punishment. The fact that my neighbours see law enforcement officers visiting me is a punishment. Seems plenty problematic to me.