Predictive Policing Software Is Pretty Terrible at Predicting Crimes

Re:Predictive Policing Software Is Pretty Terrible at Predic... by yterdy on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @08:49PM (#37759585)

You've misunderstood the nature of desperation. People doing those things are absolutely desperate - for a dopamine hit, for love or intimacy or community, for something to do with their time that is meaningful (losing all your money is certainly meaningful).

No one who has those things - and recognizes it - settles for bottom-barrel surrogates like the ones you've listed. Someone who is starved for them absolutely will.

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Re:Predictive Policing Software Is Pretty Terrible at Predic... by Broken_Hippo on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @06:16AM (#37763090)

No more desperate than the person running to get the runner's high or volunteering in a soup kitchen because they get a kick out of it or someone seeing a scary movie because they enjoy the feeling of safe fear.

Drugs are fun. That's the reason a lot of folks do them. It doesn't mean you are desperate in ways that other people aren't. You are just using your time differently.

It isn't even that your comment isn't true some of the time. It does read like DARE propaganda.

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Re:Predictive Policing Software Is Pretty Terrible at Predic... by yterdy on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @10:18AM (#37765575)

I disagree. If running or volunteering at a soup kitchen were viewed by the would-be criminal as options for fulfilling their needs, they wouldn't be. There is something - generally psychological or social - pushing them to self-destructive solutions rather than pro-social ones. As for reads, your flippancy indicates some combination of ignorance and apathy. I won't waste any more time trying to make you understand, because I'm unconvinced of your capability to do so.

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