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My number one request would be a way to avoid counties with a history of civil asset forfeiture. Hopefully having the option would draw attention to the issue a
by fredophile 4y ago
My number one request would be a way to avoid counties with a history of civil asset forfeiture. Hopefully having the option would draw attention to the issue and I don't want to stop for food, gas, etc in places that use it.
- prash_ant 4y agoWould there be such a curated list available, to begin with, including value by year?
- fredophile 4y agoThere probably isn't a handy pre-made list but there should be court filings that are relatively easy to search. Typically it would be something like Foo vs $xx,xxx since the seized money is on trial, not a person. I'm sure a company as big as Google or Apple could figure out some way to gather and parse that data if they wanted to.
- dpkirchner 4y agoIt'd be good to have a way to avoid sundown towns, too. I wouldn't personally be subject to hate but I don't want to accidentally give them any of my time or money.
- dsfyu404ed 4y agoa) Keeping and curating a list of sundown towns (or choosing some 3rd party who's list they like) is exactly the kind of issue big tech shouldn't be wading into. b) I'm going to laugh my butt off when they, in an attempt to be neutral, define it algorithmically and all the rich waspy inner ring suburban enclaves that HN loves because "good schools" wind up on the list too.
- SauciestGNU 4y agoWhy do you think tech companies shouldn't make the equivalent of a little green book available? Do you think they (or a third party) will get it wrong?
- dpkirchner 4y ago> Keeping and curating a list of sundown towns (or choosing some 3rd party who's list they like) is exactly the kind of issue big tech shouldn't be wading into. I don't see why -- but if that's the case, they could simply offer a way to let users exclude[0] towns the user chooses. As a bonus, this would work for more than sundown towns. Let's say you don't want to go through a town where your ex lives, or whatever. 0: I really mean "increase the cost of travel through these regions" so the app will try to avoid them rather than never send the user through them.
- jeremyjacob 4y agohttps://www.mapbox.com/blog/uncovering-the-distribution-of-sundown-towns https://www.mapbox.com/blog/uncovering-the-distribution-of-s...