spotcrime.com seems to be one of those sensationalist media spreading paranoia. there are so many people wrongly believing cities to be dangerous, per-neighbourhood tracking can not be helping people's fears
I am generally of the mind even if it results in negative externalities, knowledge is good. So even if it on average increases fear of crime, knowing the reported crime nearby your home is a good thing.
Apply this to:
Vaccination / disease management
Housing availability ("if they only know of these areas, will those areas become swampep and drive up prices?")
Price of drugs / medical services, or even medical test results (how many more suicides "might" occur if someone gets a possible cancer diagnosis)
Climate change
or anything else.
I think you'll find you're quickly concentrating knowledge dissemination into a central authority who decides what is "right" and that is much more dangerous than incomplete information.
Is this how the citizen app also gets its data?
nekusar•43m ago
We saw this with NYC before Mamdani.
Ive seen this play out anywhere that FLOCK is being challenged.
And, well, LA.