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by pixl97 81 days ago
"Computer says no", look it up.

Cars measure success by not hitting things.

Cops measure success by number of people they arrest. Note, not the number of people found guilty, that's the prosecutor.

Cops will gladly use a hallucinating computer system to beat the absolute fuck out of you with qualified immunity.
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0x3f 81 days ago
> Cops measure success by number of people they arrest.

Simply not true. Police KPIs tend to focus on crime rates.

Regardless, they can mistreat you with or without AI backing.

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pixl97 81 days ago
The elected officials like chiefs get judged on crime rates. Individual officers are on arrests and tickets (regardless of rules against quotas)
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0x3f 81 days ago
If we assume they are on quotas then what difference does technology make? They had quotas before the technology, qualified immunity too. 100 false arrests with no recourse are 100 false arrests with no recourse.

If anything I would expect technology favors the victim of false arrest because it gives the cop a face-saving get out. Previously, a cop who false-arrested you would have been incentivized to take it all the way, because you getting justice for it is intrinsically tied to impugning their word and/or reputation.

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