Managing crime is a problem where both false positives and false negatives are prominent and severe subproblems. When someone seeks to outrage you over one type of error, consider whether their implied solution would make the other type of error worse.
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It's obviously possible to be bad at both types, but it's probably not possible to be *good* at both, for superficially satisfying definitions of 'good'.
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Replying to @St_Rev
I don’t entirely disagree, but I would say that there’s a point of diminishing returns where minor gains to one imply major losses on the other. Prior to that point though, I think knowledgeable people can identify some fairly frictionless improvements to the system on both ends.
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Yes, that's characteristic of optimization tradeoffs. "When someone seeks to outrage you" they probably aren't a knowledgeable person in the sense you mean, though.
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By 'superficially satisfying definitions of good' I meant stuff like prison abolition and mass murdering bad people and other policies favored by children.
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Replying to @St_Rev @TheAgeofShoddy
Most problems can't be solved and most policies are useless if you're lucky.
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Replying to @St_Rev
Ahh, ok, I get you. And increasingly share your anarcho-cynicism. When I think of frictionless reforms, I think of things like bail reform, crackdown on qualified immunity, reduction in criminal laws, end to the drug war, shifting enforcement to white collar crime, etc.
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Replying to @TheAgeofShoddy
The War On Some Drugs is a terrible evil that never should have happened, also if you free all the drug prisoners you're going to free a bunch of murderers who got grassed on drug charges because that's how the system evolved. Everything is rotten and hopeless.
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True, though we can stop adding to their #, and after a point recidivism craters*. On a moral level I can accept people walking if they were never tried on those charges with a right to be heard. I’ve also worked in criminal defense though, so YMMV. *https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-publications/research-publications/2004/200405_Recidivism_Criminal_History.pdf …
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