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The deeper question: should heuristic methods be used at all by police?

I mean not only artificial heuristics like machine learning, but the ones people have always used, e.g.: "acting really weird means the person is probably on drugs/commiting a crime".

All prejudices we use are heuristic techniques. Some are badly calibrated and give bad results (e.g. racism) but some may give accurate results (e.g. "poor neighborhoods have a higher crime rate"). Should these techniques be used when they're accurate?

>>young_+(OP)
Cops shouldn’t be put in a spot to make decisions. Otherwise societal biases seep into those decisions. Our policing systems should be resilient against biases in the individuals policing.