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Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by mytailorisrich on Friday June 26, 2020 @04:49PM (#23656858)
You moved from police presence to sending innocents to prison... That's quite a step.

Predictive policing is nothing more than police presence. If police arrests innocents and the justice system sends them to prison that's quite another issue. On the whole I suspect that the number of innocents sent to prison is rather low.

There's hysteria alright on 'racial issues' at the moment.

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Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by tomnipotent on Friday June 26, 2020 @04:54PM (#23656928)
> You moved from police presence to sending innocents to prison... That's quite a step.

How do you think people get arrested? They show up at a police precinct and turn themselves in?

> There's hysteria alright on 'racial issues' at the moment.

Yeah, I'm sure the Civil Rights & Suffrage movements were just "hysteria" too right?

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