violence
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Student Stabbed After AI Weapons Scanner Missed Knife
If it isn’t broken, don’t replace it with AI — especially when it comes to metal detectors. This past October, a high school student in New York was stabbed with a knife that the school’s AI weapons scanner failed to detect.
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San Francisco Cops Used DNA From Rape Victim to Arrest Her Over Property Crime: Report
The San Francisco Police Department has used DNA obtained for a woman’s rape kit to later arrest her over a property crime, according to a horrifying announcement from San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin on Monday. And Boudin suggests this might not be the only case of this happening.
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Most Police Killings in the U.S. Aren’t Officially Counted, Study Finds
Police officers are killing more Americans every year than official statistics indicate, new research out Thursday concludes. The study compared government data to other records maintained by outside organisations and found a wide gap, suggesting that more than half of police killings have been unreported by the federal government in the last 40 years.
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Amazon Court Filing Includes Chilling Death Threats Published On Parler
Amazon submitted a new filing in U.S. federal court on Tuesday in response to an emergency motion by Parler to restore its hosting services through Amazon’s AWS. Parler was kicked offline early Monday after Amazon said the social media company had violated its terms of service and Parler couldn’t find another company willing to do…