hmmm, slowly edge our way into an Orwellian nightmare shall we? Haven't we been told that slow, metered, indoctrination causes us to not notice societal changes or ask questions? 1920's Germany experienced the same thing....the gov. said "every self-respecting German citizen will be proud to register their guns", then when it became time for Hitler to bring the hammer down it was a piece of cake for the Gestapo and SS to round up....they'd already been given the addresses and names.
Talk about a real-life acting out of the Minority Report, you might be arrested because an algorithm decided you would be, sorry but we have a Constitution that specifically and clearly states Innocent until PROVEN guilty, not suspect until preemptively apprehended.
Talk about a sign of the times, what's next death sentences by self-aware "predictive enforcement" drones?
Grace to you, Glory to God!
Is 'Predictive Policing' Helpful or Harmful to Society?
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Predictive policing uses algorithms to predict where crime will occur and sends extra law enforcement patrols into those neighborhoods. The police processes historical data through a computer program and determines "hot spots" based on modeling by social anthropologists.
Reason.com asks, "How might predictive policing interfere with the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment guarantee that Americans are to be free unreasonable searches and seizures?" Reason.com claims to provide an alternative to right-wing and left-wing opinions with its focus on liberty and individual choice. Ronald Bailey's article discusses the benefits (less crime, more efficient law enforcement) and costs (possible violation of Civil Rights?).
REASON.COM reports:
Reason.com asks, "How might predictive policing interfere with the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment guarantee that Americans are to be free unreasonable searches and seizures?" Reason.com claims to provide an alternative to right-wing and left-wing opinions with its focus on liberty and individual choice. Ronald Bailey's article discusses the benefits (less crime, more efficient law enforcement) and costs (possible violation of Civil Rights?).
REASON.COM reports:
Predictive policing helps police protect citizens. It could also be used to oppress them.
Chart from Memphis Police Department’s Blue CRUSH initiative uses IBM predictive analytics software to analyze past and present crime records in seconds to create multi-layer “hot spots” and better deploy officers to combat crime.
Read More: http://reason.com/archives/2012/07/10/predictive-p...
Top Opinion
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iamco2000 2012/07/14 02:39:38
Too many people still are suffering to the point they seemingly have no conscience of what is right or wrong this is why we need protection. When everyone learns how to take care of the less fortunate and the less fortunate learn how to keep their integrity, as the sons and daughters of God should have been from the beginning, then we wouldn't need police. As it is now they are going broke trying to stop too much crime. The Predictive Policing data analysis software is helping them keep up without having to hire more than they can afford to walk the streets.
They say that this is a way to "better deploy officers to combat crime". It is almost laughable how misguided so many of the laws are in this country.
-----how about trying this: start respecting the idea of individual freedom that this country was founded on and stop enacting stupid laws that do things like make prostitution or otherwise harmless drugs like marijuana illegal (yet allow special interests who pad politicians pockets like the pornography or alcohol industries to flourish<<---what a joke)
All laws against victimless crimes do is CREATE crime and waste police resources and taxpayer money----- plus they breed other crimes associated with the profit from dealing in those black markets.Eliminate those stupid, brainless, non forward thinking, non-liberty respecting laws and YOU WILL HAVE PLENTY OF RESOURCES in your police departments to get after real criminals who are committing real crimes.... all without the help of complex algorithms.
We should probably have designated teams at all strata of society wherein everyone is aware that the law is taking care of them in a fair and just manner.
Consider that the police power is exerted by the armed thugs of civil government in the management of RETALIATORY lethal force as a deterrent against the retail (as opposed to government institutional wholesale) violation of the private citizen's rights to life, to liberty, and to property.
They don't "prevent" anything before the fact, and that's not their role. Ever. This is why those government goons in uniform have "hold harmless" statutes to keep them from being sued for failure to fulfill some imaginary duty to protect us mere civilians against being robbed, raped, murdered, etc.
Far better than "predictive policing" is Vermont carry.
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"The great object is that every man be armed." [Patrick Henry]
IN MANY RESPECTS I THINK THIS IS VERY GOOD... PREVENTING CRIME & SPENDING LESS TAX PAYER $ TO MAINTAIN POLICE FORCES, CATCHING THE 'BAD GUYS' IN THE ACT sort of speaking... HOWEVER, THERE'S A BIG POTENTIAL FOR ABUSE OF SOCIETY AS A WHOLE, in the sense that HISTORY TRULY DOES REPEAT IT'S-SELF, HAVING FEWER POLICE AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE CITY IS VERY RISKY. AS IT IS, HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE FOR THE POLICE TO ANSWER AN EMERGENCY CALL, OR A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CALL, LIVES ARE BEING LOST BECAUSE THE POLICE ARE GROUPED TOGETHER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN, JUST WAITING FOR BURGLAR’S TO HIT A 'WAREHOUSE'
THIS IS NOT ABOUT BECOMING A POLICE STATE (LIKE NAZI’S in the 1940s), WE HAVE ALREADY BECOME A SOCIALIST SOCIETY... what we should be doing is, ALLOCATING MORE $ TO CLEAN-UP CRIME RIDDEN AREAS, which are USUALLY, GHETTO or INDUSTRIAL AREAS... LET BUSINESSES FOOT THE EXPENSE (FOR NON-TRAFFIC BUSINESSES such as warehouses etc. "can you say rent-a-cop") ... Everyone wants safety & protection of personal property... due to human nature, we need the police... & we do need to use them more wisely, this is a stab at that.
IF ONE IS GOING TO CRITICIZE AN IDEA BASED ON 'UNFOUNDED FEARS' THEN THEY SHOULD A THE LEAST COME UP WITH A BETTER SOLUTION... I will support that!
This is racial profiling for the human race.
Let's be perfectly equal, put police patrols only every other square block, from the suburban Forest Hills Cemetery to the New Orleans Projects, after all, predictive policing is SO "unfair" to those who are doing crime. Why on EARTH would you want the same response in low population centers as in packed low income strife ridden areas.
This is an extremely BAD idea.
Unless you're a real fan of living under authoritarian tyranny.
This is the first step into a very dangerous decline of personal freedoms and rights of Innocent until PROVEN Guilty.
Oh, that's right...computer says you're guilty--therefore, you're guilty.
Yeah...this is how Liberty dies.
'1984' and 'Orwell'.
This Predictive Policing is simply TOO dangerous to fool around with, too easily abused, and NO way to really control it.
But yeah, it's just going TOO far into extremist-policy based on crime-fear.
Tyranny is freedom....right??
"A gov't should fear it's people, the people should not fear their gov't."
'V' V for Vendetta.