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There is this not-exactly

artappraiser — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 07:58:50 +0000

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There is this not-exactly-enticing alternative developing elsewhere:

Police officers wearing A.I.-powered smart glasses in Luoyang (Credit Reuters), from

Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras

by Paul Mozar @ NYTimes.com, July 8

ZHENGZHOU, China — In the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, a police officer wearing facial recognition glasses spotted a heroin smuggler at a train station.

In Qingdao, a city famous for its German colonial heritage, cameras powered by artificial intelligence helped the police snatch two dozen criminal suspects in the midst of a big annual beer festival.

In Wuhu, a fugitive murder suspect was identified by a camera as he bought food from a street vendor.

With millions of cameras and billions of lines of code, China is building a high-tech authoritarian future. Beijing is embracing technologies like facial recognition and artificial intelligence to identify and track 1.4 billion people. It wants to assemble a vast and unprecedented national surveillance system, with crucial help from its thriving technology industry.

“In the past, it was all about instinct,” said Shan Jun, the deputy chief of the police at the railway station in Zhengzhou, where the heroin smuggler was caught. “If you missed something, you missed it.”

China is reversing the commonly held vision of technology as a great democratizer, bringing people more freedom and connecting them to the world. In China, it has brought control [....]

The Shame Game

The intersection south of Changhong Bridge in the city of Xiangyang used to be a nightmare. Cars drove fast and jaywalkers darted into the street.

Then last summer, the police put up cameras linked to facial recognition technology and a big, outdoor screen. Photos of lawbreakers were displayed alongside their names and government I.D. numbers. People were initially excited to see their faces on the board, said Guan Yue, a spokeswoman, until propaganda outlets told them it was punishment.

“If you are captured by the system and you don’t see it, your neighbors or colleagues will, and they will gossip about it,” she said. “That’s too embarrassing for people to take.”

China’s new surveillance is based on an old idea: Only strong authority can bring order to a turbulent country. Mao Zedong took that philosophy to devastating ends [....]

The response of the power

rmrd0000 — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 11:11:46 +0000

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The response of the power structure to police abuse feeds the perception of many in the black community that fear- based policing is what society wants.

https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/this-is-the-america-white-people-wished-for-this-is-th-1827488153

Juries refuse to convict police even when police execute unarmed people

http://www.tmz.com/2017/12/07/mesa-police-involved-shooting-bodycam-philip-brailsford-not-guilty-daniel-shaver/

Officials who turn a blind eye to police abuse are re-elected. This is what society wants.

This article really shows the

ocean-kat — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 06:44:22 +0000

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This article really shows the depth of the problem. The abusive cop isn't the hard part of the problem to solve. They can be easily identified and removed, if the power structure wanted to do it. But the whole system protects them, punishes the victim, and continues the abuse.

Yeah, the quoted anonymouse

artappraiser — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 04:40:59 +0000

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Yeah, the quoted anonymouse cop basically says it straight out, that it's all about escalation, but doing it so well that it can't be I.D.'d as easily. And he is pointing out that the guy in this case was incompetent at masking it. It's fear-based policing. I think whether they are being taught it or not anymore, they still do it, believe in it and reinforce in tribe with the whole "thin blue line" stuff. I suspect that one major personality type drawn to policing already has this power-over-others desire inherent and that teaching another more positive, less fear based way, isn't sufficient, they have to watch for those types and either reject them or figure out a way to de-program it out of them.

Fits in with the whole "us vs

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 12 Jul 2018 00:32:09 +0000

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Fits in with the whole "us vs them" mentality, xgips on their shoulder rather than trying to solve problems and keep the peace. They seem untrained to de-escalate anything, and din't even see that as part of their job.