Part of the problem is law enforcement agencies seem to find it hard to grasp the importance of a scale of probability. For instance, they will dial the probability of a match down from, say, 95% to 85%, in order to throw a wider net. Works great for them, not so great for the greater number of innocent people caught…
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This is bad, but also fascinating. I believe the dangers of facial recognition can currently only be combated with legislation, but I doubt people will just stop using biometric recognition software.
Quelle surprise!
As MaJay says: “Donate to @RAICESTEXAS. Donate to the ACLU. They’re doing as much of the legal and humanitarian stuff as they possibly can.”
A huge barrier to good, affordable public housing seems to be the American mindset that it is giving housing away to the undeserving poor. Perhaps if more jurisdictions reframed it as “workforce” housing, it would be more popular, but I doubt it.
I wasn’t sure about this because I thought he might get conjugal visits, because there’s always some nuts out there wanting romance with people who have been locked away for good reason, but NO! Federal prisons apparently do not allow conjugal visits! As long as he is in a federal facility, he will not get conjugal…
“. . . let him sit for years and decades to think . . . analyzing every moment that led him to his state until he realizes one day what he’s done.”
I have seen a lot of articles saying that rent control does not actually achieve its goals, but what are the alternatives? Things are shitty as is. Letting the market take care of things obviously isn’t working. Is socialized housing an effective alternative? Access to public housing in the US always seems like a…
Regardless of what he deserves, the rest of us deserve to be safe from him. I don’t believe in the death penalty, but I will be very happy if they lock him up and throw away the key.
“Right now it’s ‘fuck, both these people are garbage persons, I just have to go with the one of two that is slightly less garbage than the other.’”
Definitely mad at that tactic!
“responsible people who care about the process.”
I guess I take the fear of a “tyranny of the majority” to heart. The majority is not always right (although in this particular instance, I very much believe it is), and I believe the minority should have some recourse.
The majority of them do show up: https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2018/jun/26/wolf-blitzer/majority-undocumented-immigrants-show-court-data-s/
Like I said, I can get mad at them for opposing legislation to mitigate climate change. It is an important issue - probably the most important issue of our time. But I would not be any less mad if they had blocked this legislation by voting against it.
One of my parents also immigrated here legally. I am in favor of people following a legal process of immigration. However, I also believe
Yep. The only difference is the reason, so I am not upset by the tactic, I am upset by their reason for doing it in the first place. In this case, the means do not justify the ends.
I am OK with legislators using this tactic when it is for a good cause, just as I am OK with legislators voting for a good cause. But I am not really any more appalled at Republicans using this tactic to block good legislation than I am when they vote against good legislation - I am appalled when they block good…