Sakai assignment / attendence / preparation:
Write down everything you can remember about the videos and readings due today.
Points about the crime map
- Seeing crimes near playgrounds
- supports more policing in these areas, particularly due to children
- Overall trend toward less crime
- variation
- cause? more data
- more crime in the summer
- correlation example! lots of things happen because it’s warmer
- homicide in communal areas
- maybe hints about where to police
Consider the data collected and the use of that data. Make sure to use the evidence provided.
Crime analytics are good and morally acceptable
- Save money if we only lock up people who really need it (greater good!)
- Decreased crime rate - Camden had evidence
- Reduces human bias - individual rights to equal protection of life/property
- Profiling is based on statistics
- potential for more accurate arrests?
- potential to reduce crime (greater good)
- Analytics can be based on individual actions
- Milgram’s tool for risk assessment is based on individual behavior eg prior convictions
Crime analytics are not worth the moral cost and price of individual rights
- Negative associations with people unfairly - violates individual rights to be judged by own actions
- Unfair targeting and creates bias - violates individual rights
- People live by a community standard
- Analytics may not be applied fairly even if they could
- what if analytical tools include your neighborhood or friends’ behavior as predictive of your behavior
- have we really given the gov’t the right to our life/property such that someone can arrest us or lock us up?