Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. first

Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by baddox on Friday June 26, 2020 @01:44PM (#23654748)

But how does the level of policing in an area affect murder rates? I don't know the answer, but from statistics I've seen, it seems pretty clear that police are not exactly great at solving murders.

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Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by iguy on Friday June 26, 2020 @06:55PM (#23657987)

Are you seriously claiming that the presence of police increases the murder rate? Or are you actually asking to know by what mechanisms policing can prevent murders?

Once you are talking about solving a murder, clearly that one was not prevented. It may draw detectives to the neighborhood looking for clues. It's pretty hard to argue that the causality runs from these detectives to the murder though.

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Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by baddox on Friday June 26, 2020 @08:22PM (#23658466)

> Are you seriously claiming that the presence of police increases the murder rate?

No, I'm not, and I didn't say anything remotely suggesting that.

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Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by iguy on Saturday June 27, 2020 @05:08AM (#23660499)

Yea I couldn't figure it out. The context of the thread was which way the causality goes from density of policing to level of crime. What were you saying then?

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Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by ReptileMan on Friday June 26, 2020 @02:09PM (#23655084)

It is hard to solve a crime when your main witness is only accessible trough Ouija board

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Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by remarkEon on Friday June 26, 2020 @01:52PM (#23654859)

You should ask some homicide detectives why that is.

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