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wavegeek on March 18, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: To find suspects, police quietly turn to Google

The use of this information in the hands of the statistically incompetent will lead to miscarriages of justice and disaster. This basically institutionalizes the prosecutor's fallacy.

bigiain on March 18, 2018 [–]

"statistically incompetent" and/or over ambitious and over zealous career climbing LEO...

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