Saturday, March 3, 2018

Predictive Policing

It appears that for the last five or six years New Orleans Police Department has been experimenting with "predictive policing", using technology developed by Palantir. Meanwhile, the People's Republic of China has taken predictive policing farther than (we know) New Orleans has, making preemptive arrests.

In Lichtenberg's The Waste Books, item 91 of Notebook F reads
If physiognomy becomes what Lavater expects it to become, children will be hanged before they have perpetrated the deeds that deserve the gallows; a new kind of confirmation will thus be performed every year. A physiognomic auto-da-fé.
 "Big Data" or "Data Science" has the modern sound that "physiognomy" has lost.

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