To best mimic the success of the original post, it would be good to be able to identify people doing the most damage to a neighborhood so we could help them first with tax relief, food, birth control, whatever would help the most.
That would be the police.
Yes, but the fact that we have to monitor them proves they aren't up to the job. The people need to do this, and we should use scraping data to prevent _ALL_ crimes.
My point about stopping ALL crime with data is a very clear statement that has validity and merit.
Without understanding the problems and ways police harm communities, throwing data at a problem is unlikely to result in good outcomes. Through the lens of “crime” harm is hard to separate from illegality. Driving with expired plates because you can’t afford it until next month is illegal, but it isn't causing the same amount of harm as burying that person under court fees and fines until they’re homeless. Unless you collect the right data, understand the data's meaning, data is useless.
Some starting places on harm police do to communities, if you’re interested:
- podcast: season 3 of Serial https://serialpodcast.org/season-three
- article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/over-policing-of-america_b_44...
- book: the end of policing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Policing