Tue, Mar 16th 2021 3:33pm
Tim Cushing
The Pasco County (FL) Sheriff s Office is being sued over its targeted harassment program one it likes to call predictive policing.
Predictive policing is pretty much garbage everywhere, since it relies on stats generated by biased policing to generate even more biased policing. In Pasco County, however, it s a plague willingly inflicted on residents by a sheriff (Chris Nocco) who has apparently described the ultimate goal of the program as making [people] miserable until they move or sue.
Well, Pasco County s getting one of these outcomes, after years of hassling residents who happen to find themselves labelled as criminals or possible criminals by the Sheriff s faulty software. Under the guise of fighting crime, Sheriff s deputies make multiple visits to residences deemed troublesome, ticketing them for unmowed lawns, missing mailbox numbers, or for allowing teens to smoke on their property.