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compstat - what i presume you are referring to - demonstrably exacerbates the performance metrics it was intended to improve. it impacts everyone, even today. because it - either by accident or by design - disproportionally targets latino/black men, it is somehow less valid as a critique? please.

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It is perfectly valid, just less interesting as a critique. This is well-trod ground, journalistically. If writing about it were actually going to change anything, it would have already. As it stands, writing about it now is just a shrewd way to sell copy to people who like think that reading about something is the same as “taking action” against it.

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