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loucanrtstats · 6 years

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wrong place wrong time ...says who?

BIG DATA Problems: Being someone who has worked a lot with data, I normally am strong propenent of using data for decisions, but I cant help but notice becauase of the ubuiquity of data, the data is often in the wrong hands or presented out context, leading to bullshite!

Todays example come from...the XXPD. Rolling around in my automobile yesterday, looking for parking at a campus like institution, with people darting in and out every corner, out of no where comes Campus PD with siren. i pull over immediately.

Tall, cool man (TCM) with sunglasses emerges from cruiser about 2 minutes later. As he is comming out of car, he is talking at rapidly and with a sense of urgency into his radio.

I thought perhaps that some emergency situation had just popped up and he had to respond. Hopefully, then he would just tell me to get lost.

But I hear on the radio " Looks like his name is Michael Louca, valid licence, no warrants, no pasts, got the car from Keene" all the stuff you might expect", but then he just kept going and going and going and going and going and going and going with random little data points connected my license plate.....all of which innocuous...:.

right towards the end, the tattle tale on the other end, urgently tells TCM, "he gets stopped a lot!!!. Wow. "

TCM slowly cracks a smile, the same smile ICE T makes on an episode of Law and Order SVU when they finally find that critical peice of evidence that solidifies the case against rapist or whomever.

I hear the data point and nervously interject "actually...oh that doesn't mean anything....I uh"

I am realizing as I probably just made worse.

But I was actually making the point as a data analyst, vs guilty of something guy. I do in fact get stopped at lot. A lot.

I don't count but I get checked out 3-4 times a month. Over the years, hundreds of times. The reason being the last few years I drive uber and Lyft and I work late at night and at off hours maximize profit and dollars per per mile.

The best rides in Boston and SF Bay Metro tendo to be travelers from the suburbs going to airport. Or special populations of folks that absolutely have to be somewhere and don't care what it costs.

For example Family Man Stan, with wife and two baby daughters at home, will on occasion miss the commuter rail back to Tiny Town Usa, 45 miles away.

Stan won't thing twice about dropping 60 bucks once in while to see those two cuties at home. In fact, he wil be grateful and probably tip me. Stan, is a good man.

The larger point is to pick up these rides, you have to position your car/phone in kind of odd spots and at.unusual times of the day.

So if I cop see a guy waiting around in Circuit City Parking lot at 3:45 am on a Wednesday, they naturally check it out.

95% of cops are excellent people and this has not ever been an issue. On occasion they will ask me if I have seen anything "suspicious" around , if something is going down.

One time I was able to provide a key clue "he went that way!" I said.

The large point is I have been stopped hundreds of times, yeilding no criminal activity and very low number of tickets.

I have driven tens of thousands of more miles than most, yeilding few if any infractions over the years.

I have to be safe or they wouldn't let me drive.

The relevant data points to look at would have been stops to crimes/infractions.

That data point would have told them I am a model driver and citizen, thoroughly vetted by police in communities accross the region. Maybe they could give me a little badge or something.

You may be thinking that Mike you are the exceptional exception. I would argue this data point with complimentary data is prejudicial to those who live in high crime/low income areas. People who struggle with minor things like having car inspected get progressive worse and worse charges and bill and data points add up.

The valuble police force is sucked down a wormhole of expires tags, inspections, etc.

Meanwhile...Joe Trafficicking Fentanyl or stolen iPhones into town, and who has money for several different cars, with perfect inspection and registration records, has a figured out what the

"Big Data" hall pass is to problem free crime

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