• InevitableSwing [none/use name]
    hexagon
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    1 month ago

    Here's a great thread by a journalist who gets replies from other journos.

    New interim NYPD commissioner Tom Donlon—whose home was searched by the FBI one week into his job—is now expected to resign as soon as tomorrow. The previous NYPD commissioner, Edward Caban, resigned just under a month ago.

    https://subium.com/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3l66i5245s727

    A reply involving "pre-cogs"

    Just a small tidbit -- back in 2016, Tisch was on NY1 and referred to the ppl who worked on the algorithm in the NYPD's predictive policing model as "pre-cogs." I tried to get it into a story about her appearance, but my editor hadn't seen Minority Report and didn't understand what I was on about.

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    Here's the interview. The predictive policing stuff is mentioned at about the 26 minute mark.

    "We have what I like to call two of our pre-cogs at the NYPD.... We're doing data science to get ahead of crime."

    The interview vid - https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/shows/2016/04/21/inside-city-hall-4-21-16