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Also, if there is higher prevalence of crime in certain areas, it makes sense to do more policing there. Now it is illegal to detect higher prevalence of crime?

• LatteLazy 6y ago
  I agree. The issue comes when you get a feedback loop: the other neighbourhood has zero crime because there are no arrests because there are no police there. Or if the high crime neighbourhood is actually only high crime at night so the police sent there during the day have no "real" crime to prevent and spent the whole time giving out tickets. Then residents get upset. I don't see why it's so hard to vary policing levels based on local demand as well as need. If neighbourhood Xs representatives say they want fewer police, let them have it. The point is to be transparent and precise with your models and then override them when that's what residents want. Of course, there is also the issue of towns raising money from ticketing, but that's another point...
  • rightbyte 6y ago
    Surely crime reports are not that dependent on police patrolling? I mean people call the police right? I don't see the feedback loop for robberies and murder etc. Maybe for speeding and cannabis possesion.
  • okthenletssee 6y ago
    The problem with issues like the ones you describe is bad management. Like they may reward their police officers based on the number of arrests or "tickets", not on actual real problems solved. And the data issue is there whether you allow "AI" to analyze the data or mere mortal humans have to analyze it. Advantage of AI may be that you can fix mistakes ones and they are fixed forever (like, let's say, an unjust bias against black people), whereas humans tend to fall in the same traps over and over again.