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hanging city officials by their ankles out of their office windows

[...] "If I could explain one thing to the American Eagle, it would be that: he should be hanging city officials by their ankles out of their office windows until they can explain how this fucked-up, ridiculous situation came to pass on their watch. Then he can move on to the police union. Then the…

—p.145 Radicalized Model Minority (111) by Cory Doctorow
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cops only find crime where they look for it

"[...] All the data they feed this system to predict crime comes from the cops, who are assumed to have some kind of bias, first because they're human and all humans have bias, and second because NYPD has a long history of getting caught in racial discrimination, which is why they're buying this st…

—p.142 Model Minority (111) by Cory Doctorow
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cops only find crime where they look for it

"[...] All the data they feed this system to predict crime comes from the cops, who are assumed to have some kind of bias, first because they're human and all humans have bias, and second because NYPD has a long history of getting caught in racial discrimination, which is why they're buying this st…

—p.142 Model Minority (111) by Cory Doctorow
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he wanted the system to just be right

[...] The Eagle called several of his State Department contacts that night, hoping one of them would find a channel to the prosecutors on Robinson's case. It pained him to do it, because he wanted the system to just be right, not to make an exception. [...]

—p.136 Model Minority (111) by Cory Doctorow
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Bruce Wayne and predictive policing

[...] Bruce was one of the richest men who'd ever lived, a contractor on both the white and black sides of the Pentagon's budget, with clearances to match the Joint Chiefs. He owned his own covert armor, and an overt armory, and corporations he had majority stakes in provided intelligence contrac…

—p.133 Model Minority (111) by Cory Doctorow