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Re:Predictive Policing Software Is Pretty Terrible at Predic... by yterdy on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @09:02PM (#37759659)
There's a difference between not being a big fan of drugs and wanting the onerous law enforcement and incarceratorial regime which was eventually implemented. Without much meaningful input from the CBC, I imagine. Your "Ehh, sort of," is quite weak. Going back to marijuana, opiate, and even alcohol prohibition policies, drug laws have always been more about controlling the conjured threat of minority populations than anything else.
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Re:Predictive Policing Software Is Pretty Terrible at Predic... by blq10 on Saturday October 07, 2023 @03:58AM (#37799908)
Again, the Black congressional representatives (which, due to districting were mostly representing Black people) were rather openly upset with him...for not going even harder.

That is difficult to square with Nixonian plot to use the carceral apparatus to keep Black people from gaining power.

I guess it does track with revisionism to make anything we currently disagree with to be a product of original sin.

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Re:Predictive Policing Software Is Pretty Terrible at Predic... by bumby on Saturday October 07, 2023 @04:12PM (#37805125)
I had never heard of prohibition as a tactic to oppress racial minorities. It seems like you’re trying to shoehorn a narrative.

“nearly every major Black abolitionist and civil rights leader before World War I—from Frederick Douglass, Martin Delany and Sojourner Truth to F.E.W. Harper, Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington—endorsed temperance and prohibition.”

Hardly the group I would associate with oppressing minorities.

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/02/06/forgotten-...

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Re:Predictive Policing Software Is Pretty Terrible at Predic... by yterdy on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @01:01PM (#37847079)
>I had never heard of prohibition as a tactic to oppress racial minorities.

Not everyone who is white today was white 100 years ago.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=prohibition+anti+immigrant

Take your pick.

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