Comment by avazhi
8 hours ago
Well, don’t commit crimes and you won’t get a gps tracker attached to you, I guess. So that’s easy.
Not really sure what it has to do with tech though. That’s a problem with how certain humans behave, not ancillary technology.
The trackers are part of CCSO’s pretrial house arrest program, so presumably a number of them are attached to people who did no crimes.
> so presumably a number of them are attached to people who did no crimes.
You and I have very divergent views of the type of person likely to be charged or prosecuted for a crime or indeed to participate in a diversion program that involves GPS trackers, my friend.
Your heuristic is flawed. The pool of defendants with pending charges who were granted pre-trial home detention are going to be disproportionately non-violent, first-time offenders compared to those denied bail or with prohibitively large amounts.
Meaning an error like this harms innocent people wrongly accused more than the stereotypically hardened repeat offenders you imagine to be undeserving of your sympathy and presumed guilty.
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Right, because only guilty people become involved with the justice system.
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Not at all. They're remarkably similar. What differs is our cost:benefit analysis of closing off this errata.
Yours (inferred) is "Too Much : Zero".
Given that those are terminal values it would challenging for literally-any-other-view not to diverge from yours, on this.
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They are innocent until they’re proven guilty.
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Don't live in the US.