Archived The new way police are surveilling you: Calculating your threat score (washingtonpost.com)
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[–] Shoggoth 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
This practice is one that I have no issue with, as long as they are using publicly available records. They've already had access to this info for ages, and now they're just using it for threat assessment when situations arise, rather than as some kind of Minority Report pre-crime thing. Things like the license plate tracking and cameras on every block are much greater threats in my eyes.
ETA: Actually I can see a potential issue with this. If a threat assessment returns a low risk, I can see cops still being almost as on-edge as they would be without a threat assessment, whereas if a threat assessment returns a high risk they'll pretty much be guaranteed to be considerably more on-edge, increasing the chance of firearm use above non-threat-assessment firearm use.