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Goodhart’s Law + Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy = When a measure becomes a metric, it is used to perpetuate the institution it is meant to regulate. Regulatory capture jujitsu at the level of metrics. Cc
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Police body cameras are sold as a way to increase police accountability, but the truth is in jurisdictions where they're used, 93% of DA's offices have used body cam evidence to prosecute civilians and only 8.3% have used it to prosecute police. theappeal.org/body-cameras-a
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Isn't this basically another data point for David Brin? You don't waste time arguing against cameras everywhere bcs there are good reasons for the cameras; you argue that EVERYONE gets ACCESS to the cameras, not just a decider elite...