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Let me add a slightly more negative take. If you follow police technology, no matter what's implemented, crime magically goes down! Although I can see a system
by sxcurry 14y ago
Let me add a slightly more negative take. If you follow police technology, no matter what's implemented, crime magically goes down! Although I can see a system like this being a high-level tool for allocating resources, the notion that it can "predict" crime is likely overblown. Where's the deep analysis to show causation, not just correlation?
- mc32 14y agoI think the FBI figures are one that are pretty reliable and do not subjugate themselves to an individual department's claims. I think the Minority Report allusion is purposeful in order to make it sound more sci-fi-ish and thus thus more questionable.
- Anechoic 14y agoI think the FBI figures are one that are pretty reliable and do not subjugate themselves to an individual department's claims. If you're talking about UCR that's not completely true. The FBI does have reporting guidelines, but individual departments have been known to "interpret" those guidelines differently for political and funding purposes. That is one of the reasons why the FBI discourages "ranking" of metropolitan areas for crime based on UCR stats.