Did anyone actually RTFA? Or even the summary? You sound like you all read 'predictive policing' and jumped straight to Minority Report.
"it is possible to forecast patterns of where and when homes are likely to be burgled or cars stolen by analyzing truckloads of past crime reports and other data with sophisticated computer algorithms."
They're talking about using statistics on crime history to figure out where future crimes may happen. Also,
"That information can give police an edge in figuring out where to deploy extra cars and cops to catch bad guys, or, better yet, keep them from opening that unlocked window in the first place. The process is not meant to finger specific individuals. “We focus on the likelihood of a crime being committed, not on who would commit it,” says Martin Short, a young mathematics professor who works with Brantingham."
We aren't talking about arresting people for crimes they haven't yet committed. deploying extra cars to high crime areas sounds like something police departments are, or should be, already doing.
I'm glad you can look up the definition for democracy, but you forgot to do the other half of your research.
Merriam-Webster Definition for Republic:
b (1) : a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government.
Turns out they're the same thing worded differently, at least according to these relatively simple definitions. Don't worry, as of the writing of this comment over 1000 other people are just as convinced that they're just as right as you(and that everyone on the other side is wrong).
I don't think they would throttle it to below 50% capacity, else why add the condition to return it to normal if bandwidth use stays under 50% for 15 minutes.
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"it is possible to forecast patterns of where and when homes are likely to be burgled or cars stolen by analyzing truckloads of past crime reports and other data with sophisticated computer algorithms."
They're talking about using statistics on crime history to figure out where future crimes may happen. Also,
"That information can give police an edge in figuring out where to deploy extra cars and cops to catch bad guys, or, better yet, keep them from opening that unlocked window in the first place. The process is not meant to finger specific individuals. “We focus on the likelihood of a crime being committed, not on who would commit it,” says Martin Short, a young mathematics professor who works with Brantingham."
We aren't talking about arresting people for crimes they haven't yet committed. deploying extra cars to high crime areas sounds like something police departments are, or should be, already doing.
I'm glad you can look up the definition for democracy, but you forgot to do the other half of your research. Merriam-Webster Definition for Republic: b (1) : a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government. Turns out they're the same thing worded differently, at least according to these relatively simple definitions. Don't worry, as of the writing of this comment over 1000 other people are just as convinced that they're just as right as you(and that everyone on the other side is wrong).
I don't think they would throttle it to below 50% capacity, else why add the condition to return it to normal if bandwidth use stays under 50% for 15 minutes.