Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f...
by kelnos on Friday June 26, 2020 @04:44PM
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> It does not racially discriminate and it is not racist. It does not harm anyone.
False. I agree that the software itself is not racist, but the decisions it makes are only as good as the data you feed it. If you feed it racist data, then you will get racist decisions from it. And given that policing has had racial biases for centuries, all we have is racist data.
And the more you act on its racist decisions, the more racist feedback it will have to act on, giving you more racist decisions in the future.
False. I agree that the software itself is not racist, but the decisions it makes are only as good as the data you feed it. If you feed it racist data, then you will get racist decisions from it. And given that policing has had racial biases for centuries, all we have is racist data.
And the more you act on its racist decisions, the more racist feedback it will have to act on, giving you more racist decisions in the future.