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Crime Prediction Software 'Adopted By 14 UK Police Forces' (bbc.com)
At least 14 UK police forces have made use of crime-prediction software or plan to do so, according to Liberty. From a report: The human rights group said [PDF] it had sent a total of 90 Freedom of Information requests out last year to discover which forces used the technology. It believes the programs involved can lead to biased policing strategies that unfairly focus on ethnic minorities and lower-income communities. And it said there had been a "severe lack of transparency" about the matter. Defenders of the technology say it can provide new insights into gun and knife crime, sex trafficking and other potentially life-threatening offences at a time when police budgets are under pressure.
Well, if this is where the majority of violent crime happens, they what is wrong with it?
Are 'facts' now biased if they happened to show it happens more in poor neighborhoods and minority areas?
Are they wanting to ignore this, and have the cops and SWAT patrolling heavily the low crime areas that might be predominately higher income and less brown, just to be politically correct?
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Political correctness is absolutely destroying UK society and things are becoming visibly worse on the streets.
Bullshit.
The police have become largely irrelevant in many communities, and I don't even waste my time reporting crime to them since I know from past attempts to report serious crime that they will do absolutely nothing.
Right, so the Tories relentlessly cut and cut and cut the police until there's not enough of the to do the job, but it's the fault of "political correctness". Of course the Daily Fail loves the tories for some reason so they'll keep yelling about how some other random boogeyman of the day is the REAL cause of teh problems.
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