June

[June @JuneSO339]

Considering the high stakes involved with police encounters and the inefficiency of the government in enforcing the few data laws we have, focusing on the social nature of data as activists as Brayne suggests seems to be our only hope in the short term. (4/4) #so339

[June @JuneSO339]

It's scary that predictive policing is implemented while courts and other parts of the legal system are ill-equipped to address its uses and consequences. Regulating the use of big data by police will require a lot of change from various parts of our government (1/?) #so339

[June @JuneSO339]

step in as an enforcement body in very specific cases, most related only to businesses and only to fair competition between businesses or deceptive trade practices. Even this gets overshadowed by the other work the FTC prioritizes. (3/?) #so339

[June @JuneSO339]

@vmw339 my thoughts exactly! the consequences of police mistakes are HUGE so I think police need to be open to more oversight and provide more transparency than one would need at a typical office job. Running like a business or not, policing has way greater stakes #so339

[June @JuneSO339]

The oversight police are subjected to is compared to that of other businesses. I am surprised that police aren’t okay with additional oversight for their work in the same way most office workers aren’t, considering the serious consequences of police failures comparatively #so339

[June @JuneSO339]

system avoidance is a really sad consequence of increased surveillance and police encounters. Police are supposed to “serve and protect,” but their practices disproportionately harm certain groups in indirect ways, making this aspect of police violence not that well-known #so339

[June @JuneSO339]

putting the bias of the systems aside, I think it's interesting that the officers cite a lack of transparency for why they don't trust managers' use of surveillance, but don't consider that as a factor contributing to why civilians are wary of being heavily surveilled #so339

[June @JuneSO339]

Since being flagged as a chronic offender increases one's chances of police encounters, areas with chronic offenders become "hot spots" to be surveilled and again increase one's chances of police encounters and create a feedback loop plagued with bias (3/3) #so339

[June @JuneSO339]

One respondent says that predictive policing is about "putting officers in the right place at the right time". Who/what defines the "right" places is very important. If official data (UCR) is used as a starting point, its already limiting its scope (1/?) #so339

[June @JuneSO339]

because UCR data is contingent on arrest data, which does not cover ALL crimes really happening. Thus, the inequalities and inaccurate picture of crime from the UCR bleeds into both person-based and place-based predictive policing, both of which influence the other (2/?) #so339

[June @JuneSO339]

Additionally, the interview presents and interesting look at the illusion of control people think they have over the data they release through things like social media, as one interviewee reveals that removing that info isn’t as simple as the “delete” button suggests (3/3) #so339

[June @JuneSO339]

https://t.co/guV4ph52fd I was reminded of a TV show from 2017 where different law enforcement would try to hunt ordinary people who try to be on the run for 28 days. This video includes 2 of the hunters and includes interesting perspectives on (1/?) #so339

[June @JuneSO339]

how these governmental actors view certain aspects of work as “trade secrets” that shouldn’t get out. This reflects how power structures are written into big data practices because it’s implied that everyday people could use some of these techniques but shouldn’t (2/?) #so339

[June @JuneSO339]

context collapse to their advantage as well, it makes their unquestioned belief in the legitimacy of the violent representations of those like the Corner Boys extremely hypocritical and even more problematic. (3/3) #so339

[June @JuneSO339]

Reading about the ways the NYPD video selectively chose information include and not include really solidified for me how much the title of "official" and the power that comes with it make a difference in public perceptions of reality (1/?) #so339

[June @JuneSO339]

Just as the Corner Boys can use context collapse to appear more violent than they are, so can the police use context collapse to make the situation appear more certain and more threatening than it may have really been. Considering that the police use this (2/3) #so339

[June @JuneSO339]

the position of those critiquing in addition to the work/author in question is often overlooked. People are quick to shut down one side of discourse due to its "agenda" without considering the possible "agenda" of the other side or a lack of "agendas" entirely (2/2) #so339

[June @JuneSO339]

I really appreciated how Stuart called attention to the fact that ethnographies that give voices to relatively voiceless people often get the most criticism from institutions that participate in the silencing of those people. I think the importance of considering (1/2) #so339

[June @JuneSO339]

I thought it was extremely interesting that some young boys engage with drill music as a way to work through tough feelings and hardships without engaging in the drill lifestyle. Do we see this same thing among listeners of other genres or places outside of music? #so339