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The defenders and promulgators of data-driven, predictive policing — which is meant to anticipate crimes before they happen — face a PR problem: reassuring the public against fears that such methods are ushering in a totalitarian future reminiscent of the science-fiction film Minority Report.
Concerns about preemptive crime fighting through data hoarding and analysis are hard to assuage, however, because they are perfectly valid.
A lengthy feature published in the Guardian on Wednesday looked at the permeation of data-driven analysis in the LAPD and other municipal police forces. “As the ability to collect, store and analyze data becomes cheaper and easier, law enforcement agencies all over the world are adopting techniques that harness the potential of technology to provide more and better information,” it noted. “But while these new tools have been welcomed by law enforcement agencies, they’re raising concerns about privacy, surveillance and how much power should be given over to computer algorithms.”
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As the number of troop-heavy foreign interventions decreases, the warcraft and weaponry used in battle are now being deployed in neighborhoods as members and machines of law enforcement become increasingly indistinguishable from those of the military.
This is the situation as revealed in a new report published by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) entitled “War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing.”
“A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2 year-old son” is perhaps the best example of a headline announcing the horrific impact this conversion can have when left unchecked.
MESHACH TAYLOR who starred in TV’s “Designing Women” and the “Mannequin” movies has died at 67.
Taylor who played the lovable assistant Anthony Bouvier, who worked at the Sugarbaker interior design firm in the sitcom “Designing Women” which aired on CBS for seven seasons from September 1986 until May 1993. It starred Dixie Carter, Delta Burke, Annie Potts, Jean Smart and Taylor, whose characters work at the design firm in Atlanta.
Taylor passed last night at his family’s home in Altadena, where he was receiving hospice care.
His family posted a cryptic sad note on his Facebook page, saying, “It is with love and gratitude that we sorrowfully announce that our darling, amazingly brilliant and dynamic Meshach, the incredible father, husband, son and friend, has begun his grand transition.”
Taylor also memorably played the flamboyant window dresser Hollywood Montrose in the 1987 box office hit “Mannequin” with Kim Cattrall and its 1991 sequel “Mannequin 2: On the Move”.
Taylor also hosted his own series on HGTV, “The Urban Gardener”; co-hosted a show on “Retirement Living TV” with Florence Henderson; and was a regular celebrity panelist on the classic game show “To Tell the Truth”.
His last TV appearance was on an ep of “Criminal Minds”.
Adios.