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Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by riazrizvi on Friday June 26, 2020 @02:59PM (#23655629)
Indeed. And worse they can then become an excuse to hide racist policy inside. Racist governor, buys racist software, to drive racist policing, loved by favored racist constituents, "It's not my administration, it's the software, algorithms are objective, black people are the problem...".

Maybe systemic racism is a feature of these systems, not a bug?

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Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by birdyrooster on Friday June 26, 2020 @04:56PM (#23656944)
Racists abuse plausible deniability and care not for the loss in social trust and cohesion. I really think you are right and I hope one day we might know the truth.
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Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by HeWhoLurksLate on Friday June 26, 2020 @11:23PM (#23659282)
Maybe it's not the software that's at fault, but society?
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