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Right, and the secondary effects? If you live near where some people got robbed, you now have cops stopping you for no reason, just because you look like everyb
by the_biot 4y ago
Right, and the secondary effects? If you live near where some people got robbed, you now have cops stopping you for no reason, just because you look like everybody else in that (now marked as high crime) neighborhood.
I have no idea what the optimal way to plan police patrols is, but algorithms predicting crime used to guide patrol planning? That's just dystopian.
- lvass 4y agoThe software doesn't have to be stupid, even if stupid was the best you came up with now.
- scoutt 4y agoPolice patrol != stopping people. And I wouldn't mind. I've been stopped so many times I can't even remember. If I live in high crime area, I'd want the police to patrol often. Wouldn't you? And high crime areas are already known by police. But it could be interesting to have a model to predict when (other than where) crime will happen. This might optimize the available resources.