Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "Vsauce2" channel.

The good news of sorts is that since the police departments are allowed to refuse to hire cops that are too smart, the likelihood of them managing it on their own is rather weak. I think this was probably going to wind up being used as justification to continue targeting people in poorer neighborhoods that lack access to properly funded legal defense funds.
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Yes, it's been known for decades that there are factors that can be addressed that would lead to a reduction in crime. Much of it involves making it harder for criminals to lurk and increase the likelihood of neighbors to be willing to narc on criminals they see. Compton ultimately cleaned up a bunch when the community stopped tolerating the criminal behavior. Cutting back bushes, improving lighting, removing blighted houses that can't be sold and keeping the height of buildings below a threshold would all reduce crime more than what this proposal would do and without needing to deploy police to potentially harass locals that may not have anything to do with crime in the first place.
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Honestly, a much more productive use of technology would be to identify neighborhoods with factors that are likely to make committing crimes easier and work with the local community to address as many of them as possible. Even just things like lighting and making sure that bushes are trimmed far enough back to make it hard for muggers to hide can have a significant impact without curtailing people's civil liberties. And they work more or less all day every day without the need for a cop to be present.
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That's one of the big dangers. Since we already have so many police in certain areas, there's going to be that much more data on those areas. Minor crimes might not be noticed at all in better off areas and what about when a body is dumped? How would they know where the crime actually occurred until after it was solved and probably used for further analytics?
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That's because it's easier than having to do their jobs. The main reason why crimes are solved is because criminals are dumb. Smart criminals wind up in the corner office committing more acceptable crimes.
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One of the issues with data is that you need the right data and the ability to process it quickly enough to act on. So much of the data being collected by analytics firms in general is worthless, they're just hoping that with enough of it, they can look like they know what they're doing often enough to get paid.
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@AWest-ns3dl Honestly, if you kill a couple people, you go to prison, possibly the chair. If you kill thousands of people with a faulty product, you get a bonus and free membership to the local country club paid for by the company.
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@wmdkitty Wasn't that essentially the plot of Crank?
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@wmdkitty Scoff all you like, but it works a lot better than that over the counter pain medicine crap that does absolutely nothing.
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@sunbro29 How often does that happen though in somebody who isn't terminally ill from something else? Also, as long as the person lived long enough to reproduce, evolution has nothing to do with it.
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TBH, it largely is. Most of the actual suffering comes from resisting it. If you just acknowledge the pain and do something to address it, normally the pain goes away pretty quickly. You wouldn't want to completely opt out of pain anyways, as when that happens, amputations tend to be in your future. The big issue tends to be chronic pain, at that point, things are so out of control, that it doesn't seem to apply.
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