19-01-2016, 05:38 PM
(This post was last modified: 21-01-2016, 05:37 PM by Michael Barwell.)
No surprise there's a few things I might add to this after an evenings cogitation. Not sure I buy into the report much, I think it's as much a veil as anything, but some interesting stuff nevertheless. All done
Police have found a new way to legally incorporate surveillance and profiling into everyday lifeThe precursor to what may well be the largest number of illegalities in one place in 'civic' history, an opportunity to extreme & calculated & injurious barbarisms to mind, body & properties; the collection, training & empowerment of gangster, sadistic psychopaths, emboldened by both the means and by the employers identity - blackstate; a militaristic, oligarchical assault of torture-murder on the citizenry, those "labrats", electro-chemically tortured & murdered. Just when you thought we were making progress raising awareness surrounding police brutality, we have something new to contend with. The Police Threat Score isn't calculated by a racist police officer or a barrel-rolling cop who thinks he's on a TV drama; it's a computer algorithm that steals your data and calculates your likelihood of risk and threat for the fuzz.
Beware is the new stats-bank that helps officers analyze "billions of data points, including arrest reports, property records, commercial databases, deep Web searches and...social-media postings" to ultimately come up with a score that indicates a person's potential for violence, according to a Washington Post story. No word yet on whether this meta data includes photos and facial recognition software. For example would an ordinary person, yet to commit a crime, be flagged when seen wearing a hoodie in a gated Florida community?
The company tries to paint itself as a savior to first responders, claiming they want to help them "understand the nature of the environment they may encounter during the window of a 911 event." Are they evangelical salesmen? The thing about psychopaths, is that they can radiate a certainty, or as salesmen, a 'clarity of vision' which is attractive to ornarary folk (I long ago called 'Ben' a "cyber-Ted Bundy", 'Ted' is of course a very standard ref now, and the not too long ago, "Teddy Roosevelt" cropped-up in an email from him - disappeared in Mexico, don'cha know). On the other hand, what flicks their switch, alonside proselatizing, is practicing & executing sadism, which plays to their feelings of megalomania. I've seen these wide-eyed and smirking goons alot, both in reallife & in the wi-fi choreographed dream conferencing - they just literally can't help themselves (it is just like the film, 'Inception'), where they insane-Cheshire-cat-it in their plastic 'Matrixbollocksworld' of preference, that they can let loose their inner shitehound. I'm sure that of the hacking 'community', this personality disorder type is over the odds more prevalent, by per capita. The more stupid of the type, not much more than trained monkeys and on that par, live next door to me, the mid to arse-end of the V-manner ladder (Vertrauensmann), Kapos, "protected by the law" I got just a couple of nights ago, neatly both talking shit and bullshitting at the same time: they're once and twice removed and supported logistically & technologically by blackstate, effectively black-on-black and cut-out(s). There's the requirements to prove worth, with that betraying profit and ego-maniacal motive in incarceration & "incineration", as they say. Think of it like someone pulling your credit score when you apply for a job. Except, in this instance you never applied for the job and they're pulling your credit score anyway because they knew you might apply. It's that level of creepiness. Very naiive.
Remember the 2002 Tom Cruise movie Minority Report? It's set in 2054, a futuristic world where the "pre-crime" unit arrests people based on a group of psychics who can see crimes before they happen. Only, it's 2016 and we're not using psychics, we're using computers that mine data. The read-and-feed capability of the 'mind machine' (a cack-handed but understandable term), and the brain-to-brain & brain-to-machine interfaces (BBI, BMI), is literally as tho' your mind is in serial cable with one & more others of ppl ('influence technicians') in real-time, and the same with AI 'robots' (the day I attempted suicide after falling for their techniques & technology, they all tuned-in to 'watch'/experience the gig, they could let their hair down a bit, and I could sense & hear some 30 of them I think; the excited shuffling of feet and restlessness was palpable). The capability is broad, deep & wi-fi. I don't know how the targeting works, whether it's directed radio waves, or if, as Rifat says, everyone has their own unique biorhythms which translate to IP numbers, in this electro-magnetic soup in which we live. I do know that I get effects whilst walking places which seem to be via the eye-tracking capability, so I assume it's the soup (and surely some sort of implants). These conclusions are after 4.5yrs of empirical observations, from a science-minded perspective, and loathesome of conspiracy theories. According to the Post piece, law enforcement in Oregon are under federal investigation for using software to monitor Black Lives Matter hashtags after uprisings in Baltimore and Ferguson. How is this new software any different? In fact, this is the same kind of technology the NSA has been using since 9/11 to monitor online activities of suspected terroriststhey're just bringing it down to the local level. In the final email in 2011 before it and my YT account were deleted by 'them', 'Ben' had said that he worked for the NSA, which is actually worthless, except that hubris is massive in shitehound world, of course.
According to FatalEncounters.org, a site that tracks deaths by cop, there were only 14 days in 2015 in which a law enforcement officer did not kill someone. 'Promoted' into the civil law enforcement sphere (typing's being messed with - the types disaperaing if I have to go back to add something or spell correct, so I'll post now and add later). Seems clear that these capabilities were proving of great potential, but operationally pretty useless for 'deployment-max'; this is what they constantly refer to by apophenics, as "genocide" - using it on the civil population to excise people; pretty basic statements from them, not much sleight-of-hand of the original 'malevolent gods & superheros' gig, but then, they've dropped their veil as I've found my feet in this shiessewelt they've construed. My belief in science has saved my life, in a sense, so now they're oh-so verbose (by apophenics, skits, tv pic/sound breaks and neuralgics & maser(?) shots, about claiming 'science' for themselves, like proper Herr Doktor Mengeles. [B][size=12]Bearing in mind the distinction between 'cops' & 'shitehounds', that's simply not true; also, see Rifat's 'Zombie Police'; not sure if I believe this myself per se, but 'you' don't half- torture-murder-drive insane- 'brainwash'-indoctrinate - in for a penny, in for a pound.
[/SIZE][/B]So, leaving judgment up to the individual hasn't been all that effective in policing[B] Again, naiive; if the idea is to effectively spread fear and to dominate; some of the people I've had directed at me as per the arse-end of the V-manner ladder, total scallies. Perhaps this is behind the drop in crime levels so often presumed in a society where the faith in the ploice has dropped. In the early/mid '90's I lived in Cardiff, where, during a conversation with a hair-dresser-fella, he voiced a total lack of faith in the cops there, after telling me about having had his car broken into and stuff nicked by a fella he knew - I was genuinely shocked at his shoulder-shrugs and "They just won't do anything about it - I know that".
[/B]. But is letting a machine do it any better? [B]I have no doubt that AI is used in the schiz-/ttrauma 'training' program; references/'triggers'/cues, to word substitutions (eg, anything that sounds remotely like "suicide" gets that substitution on my tv, and then (often-) tv pic/sound breakes and for all I know, the sudden neuralgic pains to my head. They're called 'apophenics' & 'ideas of reference'.
[/B]Using these factors to calculate a color-coded threat level doesn't seem entirely practical. [B]Duh. I hate to say it, but MK-Ultra-ing, Manchurian Candidating, dissociative disorder(s), and identity/loyalty 'programming'/dictation. In some of the dream choreography I get, I've seen faint 'ticker-tape' rolling across my closed eyes vision, and the 'whispers' of words inside my mind, that are entirely incongruous with the moment. (I was so surprised to actually 'see' the ticker tape, en claire as it were, that, like the time the radio started speaking clearly to me, that the message itself didn't register. I get this daft shit all the time, their stupid games and fabricating orchestrations - "I told you so", yeah - you put stuff there to call yersel' a superdooper'ero, shitehound, I've seen thru' most of your 'games', I suspect).
[/B]Suppose a person doesn't use social media or own a house but was once arrested when he was 17 for possession of marijuana. [B]Yup. That's me alright. [/B]The absence of data might lend itself to a high threat level. The same can be said for online meta data that might filter in extracurricular interests. Could a person who is interested in kinky activity in the bedroom be tagged as having a tendency toward violence? [B]As one half of an equal and loving relaitionship, "Yup"; I feel no need to justify this to you, shitehounds. "Beauty", you've called her - green-eyed monsters? What is it about you that you can't accept what's in her mind? - ...super...dooper...heerrooosss..?
[/B]
The Fresno, Calif. police department is taking on the daunting task of being the first to test the software in the field. Understandably, the city council and citizens voiced their skepticism at a meeting. "One council member referred to a local media report saying that a woman's threat level was elevated because she was tweeting about a card game titled 'Rage,' 'rage', a reference I've had 2-3 times as of the last month or so which could be a keyword in Beware's assessment of social media," the Post reported. I used to play a game called 'Devastation' where I got quite paly with a fella from OK who played with his wife, father & a friend; this friend of his, who I didn't like, sometimes called hisself 'Timmy' & 'Timothy McVeigh' even [MAE 'chirp' there - pat diahorrea narrative which I'm flagging again now]. Irish family I gather, and republican/pro-IRA, but more-or-less before I kenw this, we just 'clicked', me and this lad, shared alot of laughs and conversations in-game. Without entering a player-name in the game, it just defaulted as 'Player', which is what IRA/etc.(?) 'Active Service Unit' members called themselves, or were called. I don't fully 'buy' this algorithm thing as being entirely valid here, but I'd told 'Ben' about all of this, and if the software program is a go-er and a potential torture-murder sentencing machine, then he'd've added it to the mix no doubt about it, because it's all about a fanatical evangelicism of gangster psychopaths, and that's what they do. Also, I'd told 'Ben' (this is c.3years of daily multi-hour conversations and chatting) that at school we used to make 'bombs' (alot of boys do this sort of stuff), & I'm interested chronically and broadly in the military & spy stuff too (I lurve that '50's/'60's Cold War Berlin noir feel, 'arry Palmer, Quiller Memorandum, JLC etc. I have no doubt that all this has been very deliberately invenomated for effect; living alone helped with the 'go-code', a grand opportunity for cess deployment and operational research (just last week, a loud 'thump' on the wall, precise & synch to "lab rat"); the roll-out of an enormous synthesis of techniques & technologies, "We're glad we met you", in the tv context of 'operational research', last week or so - "Yeah, I bet - your dream choreography used to be utterly shit, and the power-levels of your ELF into-mind machine were way too high; and when you drop-in "You're being followed", you don't shout it as per a subverbalisation in word-for-word, you arrogant, smirking, drooling, lightweight, amateur shit-heads - I'll bet you're pleased indeed" - yer supposed to THINK the concept. They think themselves "sophisticated", but they're just so many age-old primitives with 'new' toys. I long-ago thought - by observation, that this 'information age' is more regressive and devolving that it's given credit for.
While you might now be rethinking playing that Mafia game on Facebook, it isn't just your personal name [B]'Frankincensed', because "I'm frank, and often incensed by what I see & read", social injustice and media PR blinkers and bufoonery, venal nepotisms. [/B]that can raise a flag. Fresno Councilman Clinton Olivier, a libertarian-leaning Republican, asked for his name to be run through the system. He came up as a "green" which indicates he's safe. When they ran his address, however, it popped up as "yellow" meaning the officer should beware and be prepared for a potentially dangerous situation. How could this be? Well, the councilman didn't always live in this house; someone else lived there before him and that person was likely responsible for raising the threat score. [B]Like the AC-130 gunshipping of the Kunduz hospital for a half hour - "Computers don't like", no-ones to blame, "hey-ho, guess someone better get a promotion quicksharpish; wave that flag an' everyones a winner". The hospital was well advertised; someone just didn't bother adding it to the relevant zeros-an'-ones stash.
[/B]
Think what a disastrous situation that could be. A mother of a toddler could move into a new home with her family, not knowing that the house was once the location of an abusive patriarch. The American Medical Association has calculated that as many as 1 in 3 women will be impacted by domestic violence in their lifetimes, so it isn't an unreasonable hypothetical. One day the child eats one of those detergent pods and suddenly the toddler isn't breathing. Hysterial, the mother calls 911, screaming. She can't articulate what has happened, only that her baby is hurt. Dispatch sends an ambulance, but the address is flagged as "red" for its prior decade of domestic violence calls. First responders don't know someone new has moved in. The woman is giving CPR while her husband waits at the door for the ambulance. What happens when the police arrive?
It's a scenario that can be applied to just about any family and any situation. Moving into an apartment that previously was a marijuana grow-house; buying a house that once belonged to a woman who shot her husband when she found him with his mistress in the pool. Domestic violence calls are among the most dangerous for police officers. Giving police additional suspicion that may not be entirely accurate probably won't reduce the incidents of of accidental shootings or police brutality.
The worst part, however, is that none of these questions and concerns can be answered, because Intrado, the company that makes Beware, doesn't reveal how its algorithm works. Chances are slim that they ever will, since it would also be revealed to its competitors. There's no way of knowing the accuracy level of the data set given in the search. Police are given red, yellow or green to help them make a life-changing or life-ending decision. It seems a little primitive, not to mention intrusive.
"It is deeply disturbing that local law enforcement agencies are unleashing the sophisticated tools of a surveillance state on the public with little, if any, oversight or accountability," Ryan Kiesel of the Oklahoma ACLU told me. "We are in the middle of a consequential moment in which the government is unilaterally changing the power dynamic between themselves and the people they serve. If we are going to preserve the fundamental right of privacy, it is imperative that we demand these decisions are made as the result of a transparent and informed public debate." That's all gone, it's a fait accompli. Get noticed for any reason and a 'Ben Yoyer' will troll the shit out of you & sit in your mind for months for the sheer thrill of it (some people really are 'just like that') learning your passes, orchestrating their diahorrea, twisting & skewing for effect neatly fitting you into a superdooperhero scenario. The basic Ranger-R I'll wager is SOP.
While mass shootings are on the rise, violent crime and homicides have fallen to historic lows. You wouldn't know that watching the evening news, however. Is now really the time to increase the chances of violent actions at the hands of the police, all while intruding on our civil liberties under the guise of safety? I suspect US & UK societies & policing are at once being militarised & pacified ("There are only two types of people - hunters and farmers"). Maybe there's a 'Woodpecker' at work and not just the convenience of light entertainments; maybe that's where all the 'wood' & 'trees' I get comes from.
Police have found a new way to legally incorporate surveillance and profiling into everyday lifeThe precursor to what may well be the largest number of illegalities in one place in 'civic' history, an opportunity to extreme & calculated & injurious barbarisms to mind, body & properties; the collection, training & empowerment of gangster, sadistic psychopaths, emboldened by both the means and by the employers identity - blackstate; a militaristic, oligarchical assault of torture-murder on the citizenry, those "labrats", electro-chemically tortured & murdered. Just when you thought we were making progress raising awareness surrounding police brutality, we have something new to contend with. The Police Threat Score isn't calculated by a racist police officer or a barrel-rolling cop who thinks he's on a TV drama; it's a computer algorithm that steals your data and calculates your likelihood of risk and threat for the fuzz.
Beware is the new stats-bank that helps officers analyze "billions of data points, including arrest reports, property records, commercial databases, deep Web searches and...social-media postings" to ultimately come up with a score that indicates a person's potential for violence, according to a Washington Post story. No word yet on whether this meta data includes photos and facial recognition software. For example would an ordinary person, yet to commit a crime, be flagged when seen wearing a hoodie in a gated Florida community?
The company tries to paint itself as a savior to first responders, claiming they want to help them "understand the nature of the environment they may encounter during the window of a 911 event." Are they evangelical salesmen? The thing about psychopaths, is that they can radiate a certainty, or as salesmen, a 'clarity of vision' which is attractive to ornarary folk (I long ago called 'Ben' a "cyber-Ted Bundy", 'Ted' is of course a very standard ref now, and the not too long ago, "Teddy Roosevelt" cropped-up in an email from him - disappeared in Mexico, don'cha know). On the other hand, what flicks their switch, alonside proselatizing, is practicing & executing sadism, which plays to their feelings of megalomania. I've seen these wide-eyed and smirking goons alot, both in reallife & in the wi-fi choreographed dream conferencing - they just literally can't help themselves (it is just like the film, 'Inception'), where they insane-Cheshire-cat-it in their plastic 'Matrixbollocksworld' of preference, that they can let loose their inner shitehound. I'm sure that of the hacking 'community', this personality disorder type is over the odds more prevalent, by per capita. The more stupid of the type, not much more than trained monkeys and on that par, live next door to me, the mid to arse-end of the V-manner ladder (Vertrauensmann), Kapos, "protected by the law" I got just a couple of nights ago, neatly both talking shit and bullshitting at the same time: they're once and twice removed and supported logistically & technologically by blackstate, effectively black-on-black and cut-out(s). There's the requirements to prove worth, with that betraying profit and ego-maniacal motive in incarceration & "incineration", as they say. Think of it like someone pulling your credit score when you apply for a job. Except, in this instance you never applied for the job and they're pulling your credit score anyway because they knew you might apply. It's that level of creepiness. Very naiive.
Remember the 2002 Tom Cruise movie Minority Report? It's set in 2054, a futuristic world where the "pre-crime" unit arrests people based on a group of psychics who can see crimes before they happen. Only, it's 2016 and we're not using psychics, we're using computers that mine data. The read-and-feed capability of the 'mind machine' (a cack-handed but understandable term), and the brain-to-brain & brain-to-machine interfaces (BBI, BMI), is literally as tho' your mind is in serial cable with one & more others of ppl ('influence technicians') in real-time, and the same with AI 'robots' (the day I attempted suicide after falling for their techniques & technology, they all tuned-in to 'watch'/experience the gig, they could let their hair down a bit, and I could sense & hear some 30 of them I think; the excited shuffling of feet and restlessness was palpable). The capability is broad, deep & wi-fi. I don't know how the targeting works, whether it's directed radio waves, or if, as Rifat says, everyone has their own unique biorhythms which translate to IP numbers, in this electro-magnetic soup in which we live. I do know that I get effects whilst walking places which seem to be via the eye-tracking capability, so I assume it's the soup (and surely some sort of implants). These conclusions are after 4.5yrs of empirical observations, from a science-minded perspective, and loathesome of conspiracy theories. According to the Post piece, law enforcement in Oregon are under federal investigation for using software to monitor Black Lives Matter hashtags after uprisings in Baltimore and Ferguson. How is this new software any different? In fact, this is the same kind of technology the NSA has been using since 9/11 to monitor online activities of suspected terroriststhey're just bringing it down to the local level. In the final email in 2011 before it and my YT account were deleted by 'them', 'Ben' had said that he worked for the NSA, which is actually worthless, except that hubris is massive in shitehound world, of course.
According to FatalEncounters.org, a site that tracks deaths by cop, there were only 14 days in 2015 in which a law enforcement officer did not kill someone. 'Promoted' into the civil law enforcement sphere (typing's being messed with - the types disaperaing if I have to go back to add something or spell correct, so I'll post now and add later). Seems clear that these capabilities were proving of great potential, but operationally pretty useless for 'deployment-max'; this is what they constantly refer to by apophenics, as "genocide" - using it on the civil population to excise people; pretty basic statements from them, not much sleight-of-hand of the original 'malevolent gods & superheros' gig, but then, they've dropped their veil as I've found my feet in this shiessewelt they've construed. My belief in science has saved my life, in a sense, so now they're oh-so verbose (by apophenics, skits, tv pic/sound breaks and neuralgics & maser(?) shots, about claiming 'science' for themselves, like proper Herr Doktor Mengeles. [B][size=12]Bearing in mind the distinction between 'cops' & 'shitehounds', that's simply not true; also, see Rifat's 'Zombie Police'; not sure if I believe this myself per se, but 'you' don't half- torture-murder-drive insane- 'brainwash'-indoctrinate - in for a penny, in for a pound.
[/SIZE][/B]So, leaving judgment up to the individual hasn't been all that effective in policing[B] Again, naiive; if the idea is to effectively spread fear and to dominate; some of the people I've had directed at me as per the arse-end of the V-manner ladder, total scallies. Perhaps this is behind the drop in crime levels so often presumed in a society where the faith in the ploice has dropped. In the early/mid '90's I lived in Cardiff, where, during a conversation with a hair-dresser-fella, he voiced a total lack of faith in the cops there, after telling me about having had his car broken into and stuff nicked by a fella he knew - I was genuinely shocked at his shoulder-shrugs and "They just won't do anything about it - I know that".
[/B]. But is letting a machine do it any better? [B]I have no doubt that AI is used in the schiz-/ttrauma 'training' program; references/'triggers'/cues, to word substitutions (eg, anything that sounds remotely like "suicide" gets that substitution on my tv, and then (often-) tv pic/sound breakes and for all I know, the sudden neuralgic pains to my head. They're called 'apophenics' & 'ideas of reference'.
[/B]Using these factors to calculate a color-coded threat level doesn't seem entirely practical. [B]Duh. I hate to say it, but MK-Ultra-ing, Manchurian Candidating, dissociative disorder(s), and identity/loyalty 'programming'/dictation. In some of the dream choreography I get, I've seen faint 'ticker-tape' rolling across my closed eyes vision, and the 'whispers' of words inside my mind, that are entirely incongruous with the moment. (I was so surprised to actually 'see' the ticker tape, en claire as it were, that, like the time the radio started speaking clearly to me, that the message itself didn't register. I get this daft shit all the time, their stupid games and fabricating orchestrations - "I told you so", yeah - you put stuff there to call yersel' a superdooper'ero, shitehound, I've seen thru' most of your 'games', I suspect).
[/B]Suppose a person doesn't use social media or own a house but was once arrested when he was 17 for possession of marijuana. [B]Yup. That's me alright. [/B]The absence of data might lend itself to a high threat level. The same can be said for online meta data that might filter in extracurricular interests. Could a person who is interested in kinky activity in the bedroom be tagged as having a tendency toward violence? [B]As one half of an equal and loving relaitionship, "Yup"; I feel no need to justify this to you, shitehounds. "Beauty", you've called her - green-eyed monsters? What is it about you that you can't accept what's in her mind? - ...super...dooper...heerrooosss..?
[/B]
The Fresno, Calif. police department is taking on the daunting task of being the first to test the software in the field. Understandably, the city council and citizens voiced their skepticism at a meeting. "One council member referred to a local media report saying that a woman's threat level was elevated because she was tweeting about a card game titled 'Rage,' 'rage', a reference I've had 2-3 times as of the last month or so which could be a keyword in Beware's assessment of social media," the Post reported. I used to play a game called 'Devastation' where I got quite paly with a fella from OK who played with his wife, father & a friend; this friend of his, who I didn't like, sometimes called hisself 'Timmy' & 'Timothy McVeigh' even [MAE 'chirp' there - pat diahorrea narrative which I'm flagging again now]. Irish family I gather, and republican/pro-IRA, but more-or-less before I kenw this, we just 'clicked', me and this lad, shared alot of laughs and conversations in-game. Without entering a player-name in the game, it just defaulted as 'Player', which is what IRA/etc.(?) 'Active Service Unit' members called themselves, or were called. I don't fully 'buy' this algorithm thing as being entirely valid here, but I'd told 'Ben' about all of this, and if the software program is a go-er and a potential torture-murder sentencing machine, then he'd've added it to the mix no doubt about it, because it's all about a fanatical evangelicism of gangster psychopaths, and that's what they do. Also, I'd told 'Ben' (this is c.3years of daily multi-hour conversations and chatting) that at school we used to make 'bombs' (alot of boys do this sort of stuff), & I'm interested chronically and broadly in the military & spy stuff too (I lurve that '50's/'60's Cold War Berlin noir feel, 'arry Palmer, Quiller Memorandum, JLC etc. I have no doubt that all this has been very deliberately invenomated for effect; living alone helped with the 'go-code', a grand opportunity for cess deployment and operational research (just last week, a loud 'thump' on the wall, precise & synch to "lab rat"); the roll-out of an enormous synthesis of techniques & technologies, "We're glad we met you", in the tv context of 'operational research', last week or so - "Yeah, I bet - your dream choreography used to be utterly shit, and the power-levels of your ELF into-mind machine were way too high; and when you drop-in "You're being followed", you don't shout it as per a subverbalisation in word-for-word, you arrogant, smirking, drooling, lightweight, amateur shit-heads - I'll bet you're pleased indeed" - yer supposed to THINK the concept. They think themselves "sophisticated", but they're just so many age-old primitives with 'new' toys. I long-ago thought - by observation, that this 'information age' is more regressive and devolving that it's given credit for.
While you might now be rethinking playing that Mafia game on Facebook, it isn't just your personal name [B]'Frankincensed', because "I'm frank, and often incensed by what I see & read", social injustice and media PR blinkers and bufoonery, venal nepotisms. [/B]that can raise a flag. Fresno Councilman Clinton Olivier, a libertarian-leaning Republican, asked for his name to be run through the system. He came up as a "green" which indicates he's safe. When they ran his address, however, it popped up as "yellow" meaning the officer should beware and be prepared for a potentially dangerous situation. How could this be? Well, the councilman didn't always live in this house; someone else lived there before him and that person was likely responsible for raising the threat score. [B]Like the AC-130 gunshipping of the Kunduz hospital for a half hour - "Computers don't like", no-ones to blame, "hey-ho, guess someone better get a promotion quicksharpish; wave that flag an' everyones a winner". The hospital was well advertised; someone just didn't bother adding it to the relevant zeros-an'-ones stash.
[/B]
Think what a disastrous situation that could be. A mother of a toddler could move into a new home with her family, not knowing that the house was once the location of an abusive patriarch. The American Medical Association has calculated that as many as 1 in 3 women will be impacted by domestic violence in their lifetimes, so it isn't an unreasonable hypothetical. One day the child eats one of those detergent pods and suddenly the toddler isn't breathing. Hysterial, the mother calls 911, screaming. She can't articulate what has happened, only that her baby is hurt. Dispatch sends an ambulance, but the address is flagged as "red" for its prior decade of domestic violence calls. First responders don't know someone new has moved in. The woman is giving CPR while her husband waits at the door for the ambulance. What happens when the police arrive?
It's a scenario that can be applied to just about any family and any situation. Moving into an apartment that previously was a marijuana grow-house; buying a house that once belonged to a woman who shot her husband when she found him with his mistress in the pool. Domestic violence calls are among the most dangerous for police officers. Giving police additional suspicion that may not be entirely accurate probably won't reduce the incidents of of accidental shootings or police brutality.
The worst part, however, is that none of these questions and concerns can be answered, because Intrado, the company that makes Beware, doesn't reveal how its algorithm works. Chances are slim that they ever will, since it would also be revealed to its competitors. There's no way of knowing the accuracy level of the data set given in the search. Police are given red, yellow or green to help them make a life-changing or life-ending decision. It seems a little primitive, not to mention intrusive.
"It is deeply disturbing that local law enforcement agencies are unleashing the sophisticated tools of a surveillance state on the public with little, if any, oversight or accountability," Ryan Kiesel of the Oklahoma ACLU told me. "We are in the middle of a consequential moment in which the government is unilaterally changing the power dynamic between themselves and the people they serve. If we are going to preserve the fundamental right of privacy, it is imperative that we demand these decisions are made as the result of a transparent and informed public debate." That's all gone, it's a fait accompli. Get noticed for any reason and a 'Ben Yoyer' will troll the shit out of you & sit in your mind for months for the sheer thrill of it (some people really are 'just like that') learning your passes, orchestrating their diahorrea, twisting & skewing for effect neatly fitting you into a superdooperhero scenario. The basic Ranger-R I'll wager is SOP.
While mass shootings are on the rise, violent crime and homicides have fallen to historic lows. You wouldn't know that watching the evening news, however. Is now really the time to increase the chances of violent actions at the hands of the police, all while intruding on our civil liberties under the guise of safety? I suspect US & UK societies & policing are at once being militarised & pacified ("There are only two types of people - hunters and farmers"). Maybe there's a 'Woodpecker' at work and not just the convenience of light entertainments; maybe that's where all the 'wood' & 'trees' I get comes from.
Martin Luther King - "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Albert Camus - "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion".
Douglas MacArthur — "Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons."
Albert Camus - "Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."
Albert Camus - "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion".
Douglas MacArthur — "Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons."
Albert Camus - "Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."

