Cameras can perpetuate the bias for the police: Here’s how

Dear reader,
My name is Lam Thuwi Fu and I am a reporter in The Markup. As I saw, I published this week an investigation into the partnerships between the Ring, the famous DOORBell camera system, and the Los Angeles Police Administration. Throughout the United States, more than 2,600 police divisions have special access to neighbors, the social platform associated with Ring, and receives alerts about publications from users who describe supposed crimes. You can read about who is the highest on these platforms here, how they appear on the daily day for police officers here, and how to make moral decisions about home security systems here.
My interest in the topic started five years ago, when Ramon Hernandez first met, a 105 -year -old man who lives in Harlem. Hernandez moved to his life more than 40 years ago, when he was mostly black, and when the domino played on the street and sitting on the sidewalk in the summer, it was just natural parts of life in the northern regions of Manhattan. In recent years, the neighborhood has been disgusting. More wealthy white people. Soon after, the police began to dismantle Hernandez’s pharmaceutical sessions.
The main reason? It was also found in reporting an article by Buzzfeed News, over three years starting in 2015, thousands of noise complaints were submitted by a handful of the new population in the Hernandez bloc on Street 136. According to interviews with dozens of people on this mass, these noise complaints represent only a handful of people. However, they were seen as a problem that needed the police intervention.
As a correspondent, I was always interested in the systems that confirm some people – when it comes to the police, often black or Latin – with priority to the desires of a much smaller and stronger sub -group – they are often rich white. The author Casey Limon formulated the most exciting summary of this dynamic that I saw in his beautiful notes, heavy:
There, in the same place where I remember that the grandmother teach me how to hang clothes on the dressing line, she told me about the inability to vote, not urinating in the place where she needed to urinate, not to eat what she needed to eat, and not to walk how she needed to walk, and not to drive when she needed to drive, because she was born a poor black girl in Scott, Mississippi.
I talked about the old white shame always wants the needs of the old black.
I have seen this dynamic play over and over again. Last year, she wrote about how societies across the country, residents expressed concern about stolen packages, with anger spread from online platforms such as Nextdoor and Facebook. In response, legislators in 13 states made a crime theft pack. One of the first cases that the Georgia Police Department brought in the framework of the new law of the state was against a black man who stole the fictional lights, a span ousy, and the wedding shower wipes.
In Brooklyn, the business owners whose institutions have become the targets of multi -agents led by the New York Police Police partially because there are many noise complaints that they press. The majority of the targeted companies in this wonderful neighborhood in Brooklyn were either black or largely black customers.
In other words, I have often seen that government agencies give priority to the most richer white population fears about the needs of the black and Latin population – often in the form of the basic police response, as it was shown in one of the pieces this week.
This led me to look at the relationship between the departments of the episode and the police. I wanted to better understand any kind of neighbors in Range, which she was sending to the police, given that societal monitoring on platforms such as neighbors generates madness, perpetuating bias, and puts people in an increasing danger of the police or vigilance violence. As an enthusiastic observer of wrong information on social media, I know that algorithms and social platforms prefer a sound minority and often distinct.
And I want us to ask ourselves: What does that mean when the complaints of the owners of the episode cameras become the signals used by both residents and authorities to explain the health of the neighborhood? Who did not hear? How do we need to set our listening mechanisms to better serve everyone in society, not just the highest voice?
I would like to hear your thoughts about these questions. Do not hesitate to share it with me [email protected].
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