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What's most important these days is the data was cleaned first, and was proactively given out to police which was used indirectly to ward off future crime. All
by alttab 13y ago
What's most important these days is the data was cleaned first, and was proactively given out to police which was used indirectly to ward off future crime. All it took was police presence.
They didn't need to indiscriminately take patient records out of their backend systems or monitor the hospitals networks and reverse engineer http and packets. They didn't need to target individuals who are repeat offenders or violate any privacy consideratio.
I'd say 150 years ago the nurse was telling the sheriff the boys keep getting too roudy at the saloon, too.
- rhizome 13y agoWhen crime drops, police can get laid off.
- dmix 13y agoReal crime statistics dropping? Or fear/perception of crime dropping?
- MBCook 13y agoI remember reading about the negative side-effects of crime-stat systems a few years ago. When the systems were first installed, they provided a ton of good information and the crime rate dropped. Homicides were reduced, less gang activity, etc. Well after a couple of years of reducing crime by double digit percentages, suddenly that became the standard. So there were perverse incentives to do things like classify crimes as lesser offenses. If you can talk people into only complaining about assault, your rape crime count can go down. At the same time, if there isn't enough crime, you don't need as many cops. So there are also incentives to write more tickets and criminalize more things. Since it's now a crime to walk with your shoes untied, the police can say "Look, this year arrests are up 10%! We're really doing a good job!" or "New kinds of crime are taking over, we need some people for a task force.".
- brownbat 13y agoI think the Freakonomics authors talked about this study... the study's authors noticed there was some gaming of the statistics going on because while most stats dropped, the rate of certain offenses held steady. The stubborn offenses were the ones that were much trickier to reclassify as lower level crimes, like homicide or arson.
- drpgq 13y agoThat certainly hasn't been the case in Canada.
- kordless 13y agoJust don't lay off the analyst!
- lmm 13y agoDoes that ever actually happen?
- diminoten 13y agoWhat's the difference between digital monitoring and pen/paper monitoring?
- delinka 13y agoThe difference, in this case, is the collector of the information is sanitizing the information before providing it to law enforcement. Law enforcement isn't standing in the halls making copies and "sanitizing" those copies as the paperwork travels from one office to another. By "sanitizing" I mean trusting law enforcement to perform privacy-related sanitation without oversight to verify.
- diminoten 13y agoSo the difference is that you trust the hospital to sanitize the data, and you don't trust the LEO to do the same.
- protomyth 13y agoI agree to the point I wish police were banned from owning drones of any type, but fire and search and rescue should be encouraged to add drones to their set of tools. If something that needs police attention comes up, they can be told.
- ajtaylor 13y agoDon't forget that this is in the UK, so in addition to the things mentioned above there are quite likely a ton of CCTV cameras that could be utilised better. Or based on the hospital data new ones could be installed as deterrents.