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Comment by adammarples | Hacker News Reader

Trouble is you'd be scooping up 90% of boys in a certain race, class, age bracket, because those ballys and bikes and Nike tech are effectively fashion at this point even if you're doing nothing wrong. And if that's the case you don't need AI you can just wait outside the school gates and arrest everyone.

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Those are the types likely to be committing a lot of the crimes. Come to a working class town and see for yourself, or go on any local town Facebook group or council page and look at the comments.

I'm in Tottenham I don't need to go to your town to get the point. However the point remains, you can't just arrest an entire social cohort.

Wasn't saying arrest, I mean pre warning/monitoring. If you run a shop you'd get an alert saying watch your fours.

So the police should set up a Flock network for teenage boys or what?

I have no idea what Flock is, last I knew it was a web browser designed for social media which failed.

You must've been living under a rock. Flock is the panopticon camera network in the USA. It watches most people's location most of the time, so the police can just type in someone's identifier and find out where they are and where they've been.

Indeed, that's why it's recommended to stand outside the school gates and arrest them as they leave school. Very efficient.

Not arrest, you could monitor though. Personal anecdote but it's clear that after 3pm/4pm once they leave school they start to scatter around. It's rather peaceful for the most part before then. Chaos on school holidays.

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