Kal

[Arthur Dent]

"Some of Professor Manson’s colleagues have tried to stop the research of another faculty member, Professor Jeffrey Brantingham, who applies artificial intelligence and learning algorithms to predict crime by location within a city, and the time of day the crimes are more likely to occur. The crime prediction algorithm that he helped invent, known as “PredPol”, is used by police departments throughout the world. His research shows that the algorithm is reducing crime and helping police departments more effectively deploy resources where crime is more likely to occur and when.

The algorithm grew out of Brantingham’s research on predicting military casualties in Iraq, which helped the Pentagon identify particularly hostile locations within Iraq that US personnel should avoid. Following this, former LAPD chief William Bratton approached UCLA and Brantingham and asked if the data his LAPD staff were collecting on the location of crimes committed, the type of crime, and when crimes occurred, could be used more systematically to predict when and where crime may occur.

In randomized tests conducted in Los Angeles and Kent, England, researchers found that the algorithm predicted crime much more accurately than the subjective predictions made by veteran police staff based on their experience alone. The research findings were published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association, one of the leading peer-reviewed journals in the statistics profession.

Using Brantingham’s research, police departments throughout the US and the world have been able to reduce crime by deploying more resources in areas more likely to have crime. They also have been able to economize on their budgets. The algorithm is saving the LAPD about $9 million per year by helping the department utilize its resources more effectively.

In 2015, UCLA issued a press release highlighting Brantingham’s research achievements, noting that “predictive policing substantially reduces crime in Los Angeles.”

But what appears to be another UC game-changing idea is anything but that in Brantingham’s own department. Anthropology PhD students issued a resolution calling for Brantingham’s research to be considered for vetting by UCLA administration because it “reinforces and naturalizes the institutions of racial capitalism, mass incarceration, imperialism, and global white supremacy” and because “Professor Brantingham’s research further entrenches and naturalizes the criminalization of Blackness in the United States and converts state racism into mathematical models by employing police reports and demarcated spaces as putatively neutral.”

This is chilling not only because of the complete intolerance of research that these students don’t like for political reasons but also because PhD students—ostensibly future scientists—don’t seem to understand the principles of the scientific method, principles that have guided scientific inquiry for centuries, principles developed and refined by Galileo, Kepler, and Aristotle, principles expertly applied by Professor Brantingham. "

https://www.hoover.org/research/univers ... -it-itself

In other words, dumbass students object to FACTS.

[Mikey]

Do you know the difference between “Kal” and UCLA?

I went to UCSD. It’s not Kal either.

Neither are UCI, UCR, UCSC, UCSF, UCSB, UCD or UCM.

[Screw_Michigan]

Do you know the difference between “Kal” and UCLA?

I went to UCSD. It’s not Kal either.

Neither are UCI, UCR, UCSC, UCSF, UCSB, UCD or UCM.

Arthur Bent has to be a bot. Just HAS to. No human could be this stupid in real life.

[Arthur Dent]

The University Of California Has Met The Enemy, And It Is Itself

I had typed my title before pasting the material.

So, yes, I can be that stupid!

[Kierland]

Seems reasonable as long as they run it on corporate and other white collar crime first.

[Smackie Chan]

Seems reasonable as long as they run it on corporate and other white collar crime first.

I wouldn’t make it conditional but it would be interesting to see if it would work and/or if it would be worth it. The algorithms would obviously have to be different as would be the resources the effort is supposed to more effectively utilize. Its current use would seem to be geared toward prevention and better rapid response, the latter of which is not necessarily as high of a priority for white collar crime, and typically requires longer and more deliberate/investigative efforts before law enforcement swoops in to engage suspects. Assuming you agree (not a safe assumption), how do you envision predictive efforts having a significant positive impact on preventing WCC or bringing white collar perps to justice, and what uses of resources could be optimized as a result of its use? What historical white collar crime(s) could have been prevented or made less serious by use of predictive efforts?

[Kierland]

I meant the threat of using it on “whitey” would be enough to shit can it. Didn’t mean to make you type out such a long reply for no reason. I’ll add a /s next time.

[Kierland]

#FatTakelessWonder