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