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> When the "classic way" shows a high rate of crime in a PoC and gang dominated neighborhood, any form of "prediction" will direct more police presence there th
by flavius29663 5y ago
> When the "classic way" shows a high rate of crime in a PoC and gang dominated neighborhood, any form of "prediction" will direct more police presence there than to White, "rich" neighborhoods.
You're proposing to pull the police from the bad or black areas and have them police rich or white neighborhoods?
This smells like the white savior complex, no offense. A safe person from behind the keyboard, wants police removed from bad black areas...even though the people in those areas want more police
https://news.gallup.com/poll/316571/black-americans-police-retain-local-presence.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/316571/black-americans-police-r...
- Glide 5y agoBecause people in those neighborhoods realize that crime going unchecked with exacerbate the poverty cycle. A lot of people break down the problems into a series of axioms or beliefs instead of systems of inputs and outputs. So while policing isn’t enough to solve the underlying problem, removing policing makes the underlying problems worse.