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Just for the record, in 2011 Santa Cruz was proud to be the first in the US to try predictive policing:

https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2011/01/14/crime-predictio...

https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2020/06/20/santa-cruz-cons...



And somehow in this small sleepy town, the same 2 blocks have consistently been the "you can always get heroine/meth/crack here" blocks for about 30 years, and they can't predict the need for a squad car parked there.


So,

a) an incompetent or politically stymied police force

b) predictive policing from prior crime data works


This was a very clever comment, and I don't think most folks understood it.


Enlighten us?


Me too? (I was just summarizing.)


So, it means Santa Cruz has a track record for being on the cutting edge of policing technology?


PredPol is headquartered there: "PredPol Inc, the Santa Cruz-headquartered firm that pioneered the technology, said that it supported the city resolution’s requirement that predictive policing “will not perpetuate bias”, among other criteria."




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