Innocent Until Predicted Guilty 430
theodp writes "Gizmodo has an angry piece on IBM helping Florida to predict how delinquent your child's going to be. The Florida Department of Juvenile Justice has decided to start using IBM predictive analytics software to help them determine which of the 85,000 kids who enter their system each year poses the biggest future threat. From IBM's sales pitch: 'Predictive analytics gives government organizations worldwide a highly-sophisticated and intelligent source to create safer communities by identifying, predicting, responding to and preventing criminal activities. It gives the criminal justice system the ability to draw upon the wealth of data available to detect patterns, make reliable projections and then take the appropriate action in real time to combat crime and protect citizens.'"
Flame war thread prediction (Score:5, Funny)
Jeeze (Score:5, Funny)
You guys are being pretty hard on IBM. They're just providing computing and analytical power. You're acting like they collaborated with the Nazis or something.
It is a minority report! (Score:0, Funny)
int riskLevel = 0; //no niggers or spicks watch Faux News.
if(child.Race == "Nigger" || child.Race == "Spick")
{
riskLevel += 10;
}
else if(child.IsGullibleEnoughForFauxNews)
{
CheckForRetardation(child);
}
Re:History repeats again ... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:It's Florida. There's a reason for the tag in F (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, this is not an "octogenarian" problem.
It is a problem of having bloated and pretty much do-nothing administration.
Disclaimer: I live in this hell-hole jokingly called "God's Waiting Room".
I have the source code (Score:1, Funny)
if (child.gender=male && child.race=black) behavioralproblems=true;
Re:Self-fulfilling Prophecy? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Just hope... (Score:3, Funny)
Yea, except the founding fathers weren't going around robbing liquor stores
No, they were pillaging shipments of tea.
Re:Just hope... (Score:3, Funny)
You Brits are STILL sore about that aren't you? You and your bloody tea.