[lukeschlather]

The anecdote from the article strikes me as a really good example of why this sort of statistical profiling is unnecessary. Guy threatens his girlfriend, algorithm flags him as red, so they... call in a negotiator and successfully de-escalate the situation. I'm struggling to see how the system flagging him as red had anything to do with their actions. It was just a case of cool heads doing good police work.

[VLM]

Cops already have a lot of contact with parole inmates who have dramatically reduced rights. So they'll just lump "red" in with the parole inmates. You'll hear cops saying things to each other like "he wouldn't be red unless he deserved it". Generally, having the cops prejudiced against someone before they even meet them is not going to turn out well.

[newman314]

US cops are not trained to prioritize descalatio in general. That's why you have that cop in McKinney doing a diving roll like Farva.