So it isn't working and is just more tax dollars wasted on the security theater? Cool.
this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2024
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Gotta get that probable cause to search for weed.
Recreational weed has been legal in NY for years
Not if there is a federal agent. It is legal here in NM but the feds are constantly seizing pot because it is not legal at a federal level.
It's gonna be fun when it's legal in all 50 states at the state level, but still illegal federally.
Wait, did I say fun? I meant bullshit. It's going to be bullshit.
Trump DGAF and Kamala made a career outta jailing weed smokers so it's not likely to change anytime soon.
https://news.yahoo.com/news/kamala-harris-said-she-long-200919997.html
“I just think we have come to a point where we have to understand that we need to legalize it and stop criminalizing this behavior,” she said. “Actually, this is not a new position for me. I have felt for a long time we need to legalize it, so that’s where I am on that.”
As San Francisco district attorney from 2004 to 2011, Harris oversaw over 1,900 convictions for cannabis violations, the San Jose Mercury News reported in 2019. Still, only a small number of those people ended up in prison.
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/analysis-tulsi-gabbard-kamala-harris/
Harris "put over fifteen hundred people in jail for marijuana violations"
As attorney general, Kamala Harris would not have personally prosecuted drug cases. Local district attorneys would generally prosecute such cases so to say Harris "put ... people in jail" as state attorney general is not accurate.
Talk is cheap. As attorney general she also held the power to decide not to prosecute those people.
If she did anything to prevent this, why wouldn't she just come out and say it? Not saying anything at all about it other than that she's proud of it is the most damning evidence we can have.
Found the trump supporter guys.
Once again trying to find anything to discredit the dems.
Found the illiterate dumbass who thinks these statements support Trump in absolutely any way guys.
When it’s a first past the pole and electoral college game to get elected, discouraging votes for Harris necessarily helps Trump.
Same as encouraging 3rd party voting in a system where they are mathematically prevented from winning.
You either don’t understand the system we have, or you’re a disingenuous troll for Trump.
Harris chose to do something immoral because "it was the law", or it benefited her, or whatever - and you can expect her to continue doing that.
You still have to vote for her, but you also have to be realistic about who you're actually voting for.
Republicans are the party who holds their candidates up without criticism - and Dems put up Kamala now exactly because Democrats were criticizing Biden - and even though she's one of the worst candidates they've put up in years, she's still far more electable than Biden.
So yes. You need to both vote for and criticize Harris. It's the least immoral choice.
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Sorry, just replace weed with crack.
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Earlier this year, investors filed a class-action lawsuit, accusing company executives of overstating the devices’ capabilities and claiming that “Evolv does not reliably detect knives or guns.”
It’s fraud. The company knows it’s unreliable and the investors know it’s unreliable, I wonder why NYC is still going to expand the trial run? 🤔
[Mayor] Adams has touted the Massachusetts-based company since taking office in 2022.
They found a scam to replace stop & frisk.
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TSA... security theater for the low, low price to taxpayer of $11.2 BILLION dollars
No, no. We just need to keep using it! It just needs a bigger sample. Surely, we'll find a weapon, eventually!
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It's the TSA for the subway!
I dunno, does the scanner grope you and steal stuff from your baggage?
If your dildo looks remotely like a gun, it might come after you.
Well now I feel a fool because I bought a gun-shaped dildo so it would draw less attention. I thought this was America!
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Well I don't want it to come before me!
more tax dollars stolen
All personal income taxation is theft.
Not exactly, no. From other comments, it also have an incredibly high false positive rate, so it's negative security.
In total, there were 118 false positives — a rate of 4.29%.
Earlier this year, investors filed a class-action lawsuit, accusing company executives of overstating the devices’ capabilities and claiming that “Evolv does not reliably detect knives or guns.”
I mean, in terms of performance, I'd be more concerned about the false positive rate than the false negative rate, given the context. Like, if you miss a gun, whatever. That's at worst just the status quo, which has been working. Some money gets wasted on the machine. But if you are incorrectly stopping more than 1 in 25 New Yorkers from getting on their train, and apply that to all subway riders, that sounds like a monumental mess.
With how trigger happy police are, the false positives would lead to more deaths than they prevent. And police would claim it's justified because the machine told them so.
Facial recognition confirmed he was a criminal and the scanner confirmed he had a gun! Of course we opened fire instantly. How could we have known it was just some guy with a water bottle?
We used advanced colorimetry to determine he was a criminal!
False positives are fine because they only happen to poors.
"Not Hotdog"
The article links an article from March '24 talking about the introduction of these devices that contains this part:
The scanner that Adams and police officials introduced during Thursday’s news conference in a lower Manhattan station came from Evolv, a publicly traded company that has been accused of doctoring the results of software testing to make its scanners appear more effective than they are.
So they could never be trusted but were still allowed to proceed.
Look, we can either look at facts and check the claims of that company that we're going to invest a lot of money into, or we can accept their bribe and move on. It's all about efficiency.
We have this ridiculous system at my work. Knives are prohibited, but get through all the time, tape measures and water bottles really piss it off though.
Why are you stabbing each other instead of being productive? Had anyone asked this? Is it the oppressive work environment?
He works at the knife factory
Haha you sound like the type who would bring a water bottle to a tape measure fight
You're making the wrong questions here.
How can we use AI to stop or improve the stabbings? This is what get you a raise nowadays
Knives are prohibited
Tru fax, I am never working where you do, ever, so long as I live. I'd melt like the Wicked Witch of the West, I'm sure.
I saw a dude jogging up the stairs and his gun fell out of his hoody sweats. He looked at it for a second and the picked it up and put it on his hoody like it was his phone.
5/7 best subway exit ever.
I know the reference, and I'mma let you finnish, but 5/7, bruh that's a gucci gun.
Someone should tell NYC that it is unconstitutional to infringe upon a person's right to bear arms.
It's funny that it's all about states right to form their own laws until it's about guns.
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And people say New York isn’t safe.