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1. schainks · 1790617396 · focus · HN ↗

   This is infuriating.

   A modern police department should actively discipline officers that are too lazy to run the necessary checks to prove the human's paperwork is legit, especially when they have a computer that can do it for them right in front of them!

   Cities adding ALPRs should also be holding the ALPR company financially liable for _every single mistake_ these systems make.

   1. wat10000 · 1790617710 · focus · HN ↗

      There a frightening lack of accountability all the way up the chain. The officer doesn’t care because their bosses don’t hold them accountable. The chief doesn’t hold the bosses accountable for that. The local government doesn’t hold the chief accountable. And ultimately the voters don’t hold the local government accountable.

      1. ToucanLoucan · 1790618009 · focus · HN ↗

         You can continue that all the way up to the President, a 37-felony convict.

         It feels like every new innovation in our society now is just a new way to diffuse responsibility.

         1. schainks · 1790618232 · focus · HN ↗

            Well, the US is the most litigious country on earth, so that tracks.

            1. tzs · 1790649079 · focus · HN ↗

               The US is the most litigious country on Earth if you go by the total number of lawsuits filed per year, but of you go my the more reasonable measure of lawsuits filed per year per capita the US is #5 [1]. Here are the top 5 by number of lawsuits per 1000 people per year:

                 123.2 Germany
                 112.2 Sweden
                  96.8 Israel
                  95.9 Austria
                  74.5 United States
               

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