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Why deal with the hard stuff when you can show a solid record of harassing people based on what the computer told you to do. It is no secret that police depart
by hellotomyrars 5y ago
Why deal with the hard stuff when you can show a solid record of harassing people based on what the computer told you to do.
It is no secret that police departments like to game their numbers. Not even really specific to police, plenty of professionals in positions of responsibility and life or death do it (Surgeons).
- throwawayboise 5y ago"Round up the usual suspects"
- zo1 5y agoIt's physically impossible to solve most of those "hard" crimes. No evidence, no witnesses, no recordings, no leads, nothing. Reality precludes the possibility of them being solved. They're also not allowed to mass read text messages, listen to phone calls, get phone-call "metadata", run security-camera footage through "AI", do facial recognition, can't capture everybody's biometrics, etc. Oh and they can't profile people or perform stop/frisks, their hunches are biased, they can't walk dangerous neighbourhoods because they then "police" them unfairly, etc. They can't win. At this point, short of magic and wishful thinking, I don't see what we want the police to actually do to solve these crimes. No wonder they "game their numbers" as you mention, that's all they're really allowed to do by us.