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Re:Predictive Policing Software Is Pretty Terrible at Predic... by bryanrasmussen on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @01:52AM (#37761299)
Ok, fair enough that you meant the percentage of the population incarcerated was higher, as opposed to the percentage of the population as a whole. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

As per OkayPhysicist's point about what counts as possession and trafficking, many drugs require larger dosages with habitual use and the courts do not take this into account.

on edit: I see Komali did a better job pointing out that lots of traffiking and sales are actually possession.

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Re:Predictive Policing Software Is Pretty Terrible at Predic... by shuckles on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @07:00AM (#37763407)
Komali only claimed some percent are possession, not “lots”. And I’m going to disagree: overcharging is definitely a problem but there’s lots of pleading down as well. There are jurisdictions where you can plead down a violent crime to a drug offense. Because these strategies vary so much between DAs, it’s hard to get aggregates on how much this is happening.
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