Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavior in a ‘Risk’ Database

Re:Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavio... by tastroder on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @02:07AM (#20037235)

Can you really? The article seems relatively clear that there are some problems regarding consent in this whole apparatus.

I'm torn on the article. The Canadian government isn't China and we have had quite a few pretty public cases here in Germany where lack of inter-agency coordination led to serious harm in the context of our CPS equivalent. OTOH, at least from that article, this program doesn't seem to get the oversight required for such a task.

At any rate, the lack of transparency and contractually forbidding people from talking about the program is a weird and all to common move these days.

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Re:Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavio... by jdc on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @02:28AM (#20037324)

> Can you really?

In my experience with the RCMP at least, yes. They might give you attitude about it, though. I have received a veiled threat or two though (which materialized to nothing).

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Re:Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavio... by sgift on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @02:36AM (#20037361)

What is "received a veiled threat"?

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Re:Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavio... by jdc on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @10:09AM (#20040350)

Whoops, meant vague threat. Was "we can do this the easy way or the hard way."

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Re:Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavio... by cperciva on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @02:29AM (#20037331)

Yes you can. This program is being driven by a desire to identify potential future victims of crime, not a desire to identify future criminals.

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Re:Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavio... by icebraining on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @07:07AM (#20038716)

The intent behind the people setting up the program is besides the point; if the actual cops think your behavior is suspicious, are they prevented from investigating? If not, then the increased interaction caused by this program can very well lead to more situations wherein you aren't free to say no.

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Re:Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavio... by kstenerud on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @03:24AM (#20037576)

"Information about people believed to be “at risk” of becoming criminals or victims of harm is shared between civilian agencies and police and is added to the database when a person is being evaluated for a rapid intervention intended to lower their risk levels. Interventions can range from a door knock and a chat to forced hospitalization or arrest."

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Re:Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavio... by tastroder on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @02:40AM (#20037384)

That makes sense I guess, thanks!

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