Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f...
by totony on Saturday June 27, 2020 @04:38AM
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>But acting on that data is definitely racist.
Why is it racism? Racism is "unfounded belief based on race". A belief based in data does not sound like either racism or discrimination to me.
Of course assuming someone is guilty because he's statically more likely to commit a crime is wrong. There was a movie about this line of thinking [1] if you're interested, which is the extreme of predictive policing. I still think there are non-discriminatory ways to use predictive policing though.
Why is it racism? Racism is "unfounded belief based on race". A belief based in data does not sound like either racism or discrimination to me.
Of course assuming someone is guilty because he's statically more likely to commit a crime is wrong. There was a movie about this line of thinking [1] if you're interested, which is the extreme of predictive policing. I still think there are non-discriminatory ways to use predictive policing though.
[1] Minority report by Steven Spielberg in 2002