Posted on 04/09/2019 12:13:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin
LASER is designed to inform officers where crimes are likely to occur and tracks ex-convicts and people they believe are most likely to commit crimes through technology, including cell phone trackers and license plate scanners.
The PredPol -- short for "predictive policing" -- program analyzes data about when and where crimes have occurred to identify "hot spots" in the city where certain types of crimes are more likely to be committed on a given day.
The Chronic Offender portion of the LASER program was suspended in August 2018, along with the use of the associated tracking database, according to the report. That same month, the commission held a public hearing on the programs and invited some of its harshest critics to give formal presentations on their opposition to them.
Although the LAPD has said race is not used directly in the data, members of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition argued at several commission meetings that certain information such as parolee data and gang member identification allows the LAPD to racially profile using "proxy" data, because Latinos and blacks represent a high percentage of those tracked groups.
The end result, the groups argue, is the justification of using data to discriminate against minority groups. Smith's report found that the overall racial makeup of individuals labeled in the chronic offender program are comparable to the demographics of those arrested for violent crimes in the city.
Moore's memo said the department would work to retool the location- based programs, including the exploration of a way to identify smaller, "micro" hot spots of approximately 500 by 500 feet in order to allocate resources to a specific problem and area.
(Excerpt) Read more at patch.com ...
“What we are talking about is a language that reduces people to data- driven policing,” Hamid Khan of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition told the commission in March. “It goes back to plantation capitalism, and remains plantation capitalism. People are numbers, people are statistics.”
Smith’s report found that the overall racial makeup of individuals labeled in the chronic offender program are comparable to the demographics of those arrested for violent crimes in the city.
I only wish global climate change could be that accurate.
Please add “Hamid Khan” to me that is also a keyword.
Most criminals are minorities or illegals. So lets arrest more white guys....
Suuure.
That will very likely happen.
I believe LAPD on this.
MINORITY REPORT
What really bothers them is a high level of police cruisers in Black or Hispanic neighborhoods, compared to White neighborhoods. They actually blame the higher level of crimes in these areas, on the policy presence.
They think the same crimes occur in White neighborhoods at the same rates, but just aren’t found out because fewer police are there.
I’m sure they know better than this, but this is one of the ploys they use to defend the criminal element in “ghetto” areas (for lack of a better word).
No, phone calls to police stations are used to report crimes in all areas. There are just fewer calls in White middle-class areas. Who knew?
If this were leading to the arrest of whites it would not have been scrapped.
Its because the Police are afraid.
in other words, reality is raysis
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