Companies like Flock claim their traffic cameras, drones, and AI can reduce crime to nothing.
There are Minority Report concerns but they try to say they that 10% of reported crime is solved by Flock.
here's my issue: all the claims and statistics assume an agreed upon definition of crime. But clearly we don't agree: is abortion a crime? What about immigration? Gun ownership? Pollution?
crime never existed / doesn't / will always depending on the frame we take. We have to take a frame—not trying to go all postmodern here—but I'd like to be more honest and self-aware of it. I'd like to claim our direction, and where we're coming from: fear or love? I think we'd build different systems with more evolutionary processes and back doors, for example. We'd ask questions like "how does crime fit with forgiveness, accountability with love, safety with the illusion of ego and control? Idk, just trying to put some provocative questions out to point to deeper (as in more causative) structures at play here.
i love police and want to transcend and include traditional definitions of safety, in the same way uptrust transcends and includes algorithms.
What do you think?