How three teenagers invented an app to police the cops

Re:How three teenagers invented an app to police the cops by semi-extrinsic on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @10:34AM (#10807096)

> 1 defect in 10,000 is not arbitrarily 'good'

No, I'd argue it's pretty awful. The average person probably interacts with the police ~10 times during their life. If 1 in 10 000 cop interactions ended up with you getting killed, police brutality would be in the top 10 causes of death in the US (on par with suicide).

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Re:How three teenagers invented an app to police the cops by vacri on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @03:52PM (#10808989)

Temporal said 'criminal', not 'fatal', and gave the example of 'maimed or fatal'. There are also non-fatal, non-injurious ways to be criminal in policing.

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Re:How three teenagers invented an app to police the cops by semi-extrinsic on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @05:04PM (#10809380)

Technically yes, but they also gave an example of a serious, non-fatal, non-injurious way of being criminal in policing ("terrorizing innocents at gunpoint") and classified that outside of the 1 in 10 000 frequency.

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Re:How three teenagers invented an app to police the cops by TeMPOraL on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @03:29AM (#10811300)

I didn't mean literal "criminal" as in criminal law vs. civil law, I was aiming for differentiating between things that seriously stress you up at worst, and things that leave you (or your family, or your dog) with damaged health or property. Bad choice of words on my part.

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