Our environment and our society are changing rapidly and very fast. It is alarming the rate with which values are eroding in our society, and one wonders what will become of our communities in the hands of our youths - the leaders of tomorrow.
The role of parents in mentoring their children cannot be over emphasised , and I feel strongly that government should as a matter of urgency put measures in place to encourage and educate the parents on the need to adequately see to the upbringing of their children and wards, otherwise , we will be heading for crisis.
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ReplyDeleteThanks Katney.
ReplyDeleteThis is interesting I just stumble on this during the week. Los Angeles police are aiming to beat suspects to the scene of a crime by using computers to predict where trouble might occur.
ReplyDeleteA predictive analysis software is now being used by police promises to show officers what type of criminal behavior might be coming based on simple, constantly calibrated data -- location, time and type of crime. The goal is not to boost the number of arrests, but to either intercept a crime in progress or deter would-be criminals.
I laughed when I learnt that in one instance, a police captain questioned sending officers into a box that was on the edge of his coverage area. Officers went out and didn't find anything, but returned several nights later and found a guy breaking a window.
The division leads the department in crime reduction, one of the officers said,. "Crimes were down in the area 13 percent following the rollout compared to a slight uptick across the rest of the city where the program wasn't being used.
"If you had told us a few years ago you could get an algorithm to perform as the same as a crime analyst, we would think you were crazy," Malinowski said. "Even the most skeptical people are now coming up to me and saying, `I think this is working.'"
I am sure this will harm the civil liberties of the people living in those areas. Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, an assistant law professor at the University of the District of Columbia, said he envisions a legal challenge at some point. He used an example of an officer patrolling a predicted area of burglary and who sees a man carrying a bag and detains the man because he looks suspicious.
"Alone, a man carrying a bag is not reasonable suspicion," Ferguson explained. "But in court, the officer will say, `The computer told me to go there.' For the lawyer or the court, what are you going to do with this information? You can't cross-examine a computer."
Brantingham and others believe predictive policing is the wave of the future and won't result in the elimination of jobs.
"It's not a replacement for police officer's knowledge and skills and not designed to take the officer out of the equation," he said. "It's about putting them in the right time and place for crime prevention."
I am not sure how this predictive policing will work when reliance on a motive of a criminal will be based on a report from a computer!
What do you guys think about this?
I think predictive policing is just another name for stereotyping. I imagine that their focus will be on the crimes of the poor in impoverished areas. While any idea that would typically prevent crime should be welcomed, it is difficult anticipating that the same system will apply to white-collar crime, which has a more destructive impact.
ReplyDeleteI suspect the same thing too, I don't see them putting this predictive policing software in areas that are exclusively meant for the rich people.
ReplyDeleteWhite-collar crime? Definitely not, I strongly believe this will not apply to them because they are 'Too Big To Fail(TBTF).