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Police Are Using AI to Pull Over Drivers for ‘Suspicious’ Behavior (gizmodo.com)
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Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) aren’t just helping police investigate crimes anymore. They’re now being used to flag drivers for supposedly “suspicious” driving patterns.

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[–] Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 18 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Simple throughline, two options: "Bad Vibes" aka being a minority in America or "I need to impress my superior, and the best thing i could do would be whatever sherlock holmes does, but im an idiot so ill just roll the dice on the next guy and hope im right and get promoted :)"

[–] HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Basically, yeah. Law enforcement supervisors prefer higher arrest volume.