They should play 12 Angry Men in the waiting room of court houses
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in reply to @aetataureate's post:
people in the united states are out for blood when it comes to the idea of a "criminal"
Whether they realize it or not, I think many people conceive of "criminal" as a social class. People in that class are perceived as deserving of punishment, and that's only tangentially related to whether they performed this specific crime, or any crime, or burden of proof. And the converse also becomes true, that people who aren't in that social class are not the ones who deserve punishment, regardless of their actual actions.
The use of AI and statistical techniques can entrench this invisible assumption, by categorizing people as "crime-prone." Oh you have a cousin who went to jail? Model says your risk of incarceration is up 35%, that means that for the same crime you get a longer sentence. Disparate impact, what's that?
whenever people bring up jury nullification, i always wonder what examples they have in mind, because all they jury nullification cases i can think of are things like white juries refusing to convict white defendants of crimes against black people.
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