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sadris | 6 years ago

This is great. More sharing between departments will help catch criminals faster.

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homonculus1|6 years ago

That is essentially the problem to those of us who oppose it.

When you say "criminals" you are probably thinking of strictly people who harm others, but the state is thinking of anybody who breaks its laws. Currently many of those laws exist solely to keep certain groups in power, and there is no guarantee it won't get even worse in the future.

Human law enforcement ensures layers of decisionmakers who are at least theoretically capable of empathy, and limited manpower makes them prioritize the worst or most flagrant crimes. Automated law enforcement gives a smaller group of people horrifyingly granular levels of control over all of society.

elliekelly|6 years ago

And help catch innocent people faster, which is not so great.

sodosopa|6 years ago

They’ve shared fingerprint data as soon as AFIS went online in 84. This is an advancement of the same process.

How many innocent people are caught with fingerprint data?