Posted on 09/25/2016 8:21:00 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
Can police prevent hate crimes by monitoring racist banter on social media?
Researchers will be testing this concept over the next three years in Los Angeles, marking a new frontier in efforts by law enforcement to predict and prevent crimes.
During a three-year experiment, British researchers working with the Santa Monica-based Rand Corp. will be monitoring millions of tweets related to the L.A. area in an effort to identify patterns and markers that prejudice-motivated violence is about to occur in real time.
The researchers then will compare the data against records of reported violent acts. The U.S. Department of Justice is investing $600,000 in research by Cardiff University Social Data Science Lab, which has been at the forefront of predictive social media models
Cardiff University professor Matthew Williams said the research is designed to eventually enable authorities to predict when and where hate crime is likely to occur and deploy law enforcement resources to prevent it.
“The insights provided by our work will help U.S. localities to design policies to address specific hate crime issues unique to their jurisdiction and allow service providers to tailor their services to the needs of victims, especially if those victims are members of an emerging category of hate crime targets.”
His lab’s previous research in the United Kingdom found that Twitter data can be used to identify areas where hate speech is occurring but where no hate crimes have been committed. This can be useful, researchers said, in neighborhoods with many new immigrants, who are unlikely to report the crime because of fear of deportation.
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arresting citizens for pre-crimes is a hallmark of totalitarian regimes throughout history
“Mission creep”, anybody?
You know I never even thought about why they named the movie, Minority Report”. It all makes sense now...: )
I like how the justification the DOJ uses is “This can be useful in neighborhoods with many new immigrants, who are unlikely to report the crime because of fear of deportation.”
If the DOJ is sponsoring this, we all know who the real targets are...and it ISN’T people planning crimes against new immigrants.
As Vooch said, this is a hallmark of totalitarian regimes.
Minority Report: Department of Future Crimes
Prepping for Hate Speech Laws.
And we are seeing right now, how the laws will be applied.
Okay, there you go. Keep your eyes on this racist!
Laughing, but with the cascading shenanigans going on these days, they piggy back on each other and become much more dangerous.
The threshold for being a racist has been lowered to brushing your teach, noticing your skin is White, or being born in America 60 years ago, not Black.
So of course, all these folks are watched, and the BLM folks cold cock people at will, when nobody is watching.
Answer: Depends. If tweeted by a black or a muslim, they are not racist, they are merely self-expressions of frustration with white privilege. Any tweets by whites are windows into the evil souls of bigots and homophobes.
Self-expressions of frustration = Riots/Looting
I’ll suspect the static will drown out the message. They’ll turn up the .000000013 percent of posts by the wackiest of racists, and the .999999987 percent of posts by non-violent racists. The only conclusion the study will be able to draw is that a tiny little percentage of racist posters are potentially violent and that percentage is probably the same as it is among the population that posts cute cat pictures.
I’m curious as to which terms make their racist speech list. Is “crazy ass cracker” on it?
Will they monitor Spanish language threats?
Like the call to action that went out in 2006 and put 500,000 illegal aliens on the streets of LA, where they massively threatened the federal government that any attempt to deport them would be met with mass violence?
With British Communist “professors” working up how the anti-American Totalitarian State will operate, I doubt it...
PS:
Note how the LA ScumTimes equates ILLEGAL ALIENS with actual immigrants: “in neighborhoods with many new immigrants, who are unlikely to report the crime because of fear of deportation”
Immigrants don’t fear deportation. They have lawful permanent residency.
The “Times” wants to obliterate that distinction.
At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son
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One of my favorite movies of all time
oh goody the thought police.....
¡NO!
Monitoring arabic language posts will be off-shored to Aleppo...
Yea it will work, because they’ll arrest people for saying stuff anyways and label it a hate crime. Just watch.
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