[bagster]

In 2012 New Orleans Police Department partnered with Palantir to create a predictive policing program.

There's the minority report. They are trying. Could it be used for other purposes? The program seemed to have no effect n crime rates.

[Cboldt]

I've casually met law enforcement (not my field) in transit, and discussed for maybe an hour or two at a whack the use of predictive tools.

Data analysis resembles the "cop on the beat." Certain people have patterns of movement and conduct that are suspicious. Old as the hills sort of suspicion.

Think of it as automating the pattern matching that you see on teevee, where the cops put stick pins on a map, then ask "who follows this pattern of movement?"

It's a tool. Can be used for good, can be abused. No different from a shovel, baseball bat or rifle.

[txhurl]

Could it be used for other purposes?

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Is the Pope Communist? Hell, yeah! Deep state *employs* criminals, what crystal ball it NEEDS is who on *our side* will rise up to thwart them politically and legally?

THAT is newz they can use, not which gang-banger will rise to fill the shoes of the one LEO plugged just today.

[Melian]

What if Palantir’s predictive programs were used to encourage an outcome...like a school shooting?

[Axenolith]

Predictive policing systems are never going to be used to reduce crime, that would result in layoffs and buget cuts. They’ll be sold as that, and then just used to collect leverage on opposition and find out where the next useful tragedy will occur...