The scope of what we are talking about when we are talking about changes in policing. Instead of focusing primarily on reform, there are conversations about defunding or shrieking or abolishing the police, fundamentally changing the institution of the police and what they do. Data is really being proffered in many ways as this sort of panacea or Silver Bullet with many of these issues. In the defunding debate, lets say we are going to defund the cut costs. People say data can be used to allocate resources more efficiently. Or lets reduce racial bias and officer decisionmaking. Lets automate it. Or you want to reduce the categorical suspicion of young black males and more accurately predict crime, try predictive algorithms. I think we need to be cautious , when we using data are trying to solve social problems with technological solutions. The first thing i would suggest in moving forward is that we pause,moment to stop, to and really invert the order of operations of what has been goin
Cspan. Org, or listen on the free cspan radio app. Susan sarah brayne, your new book seems like it is welltimed for a National Debate on policing, but you tell readers youve been working on the project about a decade. How did you get started in this interest in big data and the police . Sarah when i was a phd student at princeton i think it was back in 2012, this is when there was the start of enthusiasm over big data was happening. People were saying big data is transforming everything from finance to sports to journalism, marketing, insurance, education. But no one was yet working on how big data would or would not transform the criminal Justice System. Id had a longstanding interest in the criminal Justice System and i started to ask, how are the police, courts, corrections, leveraging things like predictive algorithms and how is it changing daily operations . I quickly realized there was not actually ironically very good data on police use of big data, and thats when i decided to p
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] susan sarah brayne, your new book seems like it is welltimed for a National Debate on policing, but you tell readers youve been working on the project about a decade. How did you get started in this interest in big data and the police . Sarah when i was a phd student at princeton i think it was back in 2012, this is when there was the start of enthusiasm over big data was happening. People were saying big data is transforming everything from finance to sports to journalism, marketing, insurance, education. But no one was yet working on how big data would or would not transform the criminal Justice System. Id had a longstanding interest in the criminal Justice System and i started to ask, how are the police, courts, corrections, leveraging things like predictive algorithms and how is it changing
They talk about proposals in their respective states. Jeffrey rosen moderated conversation. Welcome to the National Constitution center. It is a wonderful institution and lets be again lets the nationalting Constitution Centers mission statement. Centerional constitution is the only institution in america chartered by congress to increase awareness and understanding of the u. S. Constitution among the American People on a nonpartisan basis. That is exactly what we are going to do with todays program with two very distinguished attorneys. A series that we are doing with the National Association of attorneys general thei would like to thank center for excellence in government for helping us put together the program. These put your questions in q a box as we are talking. I will pass them along and i know we will have a great discussion. We have to very distinguished attorneys general who will guide us about central questions regarding the police and the constitution. Keith ellison was swo
How should u. S. Police forces be reformed as protests against Police Brutality go on so the calls to cut funding even abolishing Law Enforcement agencies but is that the political will for genuine change this isnt. Alone welcome to the program on the killing of george floyd last month the triggered protests across the u. S. And elsewhere against Police Brutality the 4 minneapolis officers who arrested the 46 year old black american a back in court charged with manslaughter demands for justice and drastic changing to policing being made. Activists say offices routinely discriminate against minorities and use Excessive Force when making the arrests the protest ammans include cutting funding for Law Enforcement agencies stripping police of military games such as armored trucks and grenade launchers and some even want to abolish police altogether. We want to make sure that people were here to up with the demands of the community which is to defund the police ever maybe but i mean abolish