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New Police Software Can Predict Where Crimes Will Likely Occur in Seattle
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cienna, ill post some classic joseph coors for you and tim later. ive got my hands full right now. you'll know where ill be ok.
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Hey, for a fraction of that money I can do the same exact job. Lets see...crackheads loitering at the west side of the Rainier Ave crosswalk, open air drug market across the street for said crackheads, open air drug market on 37th ave s, squatters at "the Porch", gangbangers at the Rainier Beach Jack in the Box.
The same people, doing the same shit, at the same place, every fucking day for years. But the cops need a computer program to tell them that?
The same people, doing the same shit, at the same place, every fucking day for years. But the cops need a computer program to tell them that?
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But, with police patrolling predicted hot spots, actual crime will move elsewhere -- an adaptive response. How long will the predictive software take to recalibrate the new hot spots? Or will it simply drive crime to different areas where the cops aren't during their 30% time?
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Is this the same crappy type of algorithm that Pandora and Netflix use to (wrongly) predict what I will like?
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In order to work properly, the software requires elderly Indian woodcarvers and Mexican immigrants with full bladders to wear four-foot diameter crosshair hats on their heads for the satellites to track.
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Why have we resorted to gadgets to do our policing? Oh, yeah, because our police officers don't know their communities well enough to do this on their own. Good spend of money, I much rather have software than more actual officers and better training.
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Unfortunately, technology is driving policing nowadays.
Just look at how impossible it has become to convict someone without dash cam video of the person commiting a crime.
y'all don't trust your popo enough no mo...
Just look at how impossible it has become to convict someone without dash cam video of the person commiting a crime.
y'all don't trust your popo enough no mo...
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@7
That was an early criticism of hot-spot policing, but in places where there's enough data to analyze, it seems it doesn't work that way: when crime has gone down in hot spots, it generally hasn't popped up elsewhere (NYC is the pioneer in this sort of stuff, software-based and otherwise).
Why it doesn't work the way one might think it would is still a complete mystery, but there are theories; some think criminals, like most people, don't stray much from a set routine in a small physical area from day to day; others think that some high-crime areas develop a sort of geographically-defined permissive social space. But without data, these are just-so stories; no-one knows yet why the thing works the way it seems to.
That was an early criticism of hot-spot policing, but in places where there's enough data to analyze, it seems it doesn't work that way: when crime has gone down in hot spots, it generally hasn't popped up elsewhere (NYC is the pioneer in this sort of stuff, software-based and otherwise).
Why it doesn't work the way one might think it would is still a complete mystery, but there are theories; some think criminals, like most people, don't stray much from a set routine in a small physical area from day to day; others think that some high-crime areas develop a sort of geographically-defined permissive social space. But without data, these are just-so stories; no-one knows yet why the thing works the way it seems to.
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