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

Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by mnm1 on Friday June 26, 2020 @06:10PM (#23657636)

Actually, black people use drugs at slightly lower rates than whites. This is common knowledge or should be. Here's 3 of the top 6 google links for "illicit drug use by race":

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2377408/

https://www.hamiltonproject.org/charts/rates_of_drug_use_and...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004723521...

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Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by alfalfasprout on Friday June 26, 2020 @06:46PM (#23657913)

We're talking about violent crime... drug prosecutions and other nonviolent crime are notorious for selective enforcement.

A bullet fired, a body, etc. are much harder to hide.

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Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by mnm1 on Friday June 26, 2020 @11:54PM (#23659402)

No. We're definitely not.

From the parent post:

> It has to do with nonviolent infractions that marginalize people to begin with. Being actually caught with illicit substances , or caught for the unpaid ticket.

> These things are evenly distributed across society, but when overly targeting minorities it further marginalizes them.

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Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by vmception on Friday June 26, 2020 @07:08PM (#23658054)

and my immediate reply to you was that its not about violent crime

It doesn't exist in isolation

There is no “culture that commits violent crime”

There is a marginalized population from overpolicing for nonviolent crimes

It cascades

It can be fixed by acknowledging this component

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