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While this certainly doesn't bother me in terms of violating civil rights or anything like that, I do think the concept is potentially flawed. It gives the poli
by mistercow 14y ago
While this certainly doesn't bother me in terms of violating civil rights or anything like that, I do think the concept is potentially flawed. It gives the police hot spots for where to send their cops, but if a criminal got access to it, or can build a similar predictive model, then they would have a very good idea of where the cops would be at any given time.
In theory this works out a lot like the old halting problem proof, but in practice we may not see such an arms race.
- anothermachine 14y agoDo you think random police proximity is a factor in stopping premeditated crimes? Moving police around will have a much greater effect on non-premeditated "mob" misbehavior than on criminal masterminds.
- mistercow 14y ago>Do you think random police proximity is a factor in stopping premeditated crimes? Yes. It may not be a dominating factor, but yes, it is a factor.