It’s not uncommon these days to read a sad news story where a police officer is killed in the line of duty. This topic has special meaning to me because a good friend of my father’s was a police officer in Kingman, Arizona when he was killed in a robbery attempt. I remember meeting him when I was young and him showing me his service revolver. Also, several men on my father’s side of the family served as police officers, and in fact, my father passed down to me a .38 Long Colt model 1892 service revolver from one of his uncles.
Anyway, to honor the policemen and women who have been killed in the line of duty so far this year (January through September 2018), and to put human faces on top of cold statistics, I did an Internet search for officers killed in the line of duty. Here are the ones I was able to find information about. Information was surprisingly difficult to find. There were several other murders of police, but I couldn’t find solid info about them.
It’s my hope and dream that some day machine learning can be used to help prevent murders like the ones shown here. (Note: unfortunately, there were a few more murders after September and I added them).
Eric Joering and killer
Officer Amy Caprio and killer
Officer Glenn Doss and killer
Officer Paul Bauer and killer
Officer Justin Billa (with wife and child) and killer
Officer Steven Belanger and killer
Officer Mark Baserman and killer
Officer Chase Maddox and killer
Officer Christopher Morton and killer
Officer David Sherrard and killer
Officer Anthony Morelli and killer
Officer Heath Gumm and killer
Officer Patrick Rohrer and killer
Officer Michael Chesna and killer
Officer Joseph Gomm and killer
Officer Tyler Edenhofer (with his mother) and killer
Officer James White and killer
Officer Michael Michalski and killer
Officer Theresa King and killer
Officer Adam Edward Jobbers-Miller and killer
Officer Timothy Cole and killer.jpg
Officer Fadi Shukur and killer
Officer Armando Gallegos and killer
Officer Garrett Hull and killer
Officer Mark Stasyuk and killer
Officer Zach Moak and killer
Officer Kevin Connor and killer
Officers Eduardo Marmolejo and Conrad Gary and killer
Officer Michael Smith and killer
Officer Sean Bolton and killer
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The best way to lower crime is to raise the number of jobs and generate a stable income for people.
Currently, machine learning is doing exactly the opposite of that.
I think I mostly agree with you. But I also believe there’s extremely strong evidence that some criminal traits are inherent/genetic/inheritable (but nobody agrees on the percentages) and that criminal behavior is strongly influenced by cultural issues related to marriage and family stability. But all these are highly correlated with income so it’s impossible to tell what causes what.
People who can plan a future can control their life because of a good stable income. In areas where this is not the norm, all kind of things goes wrong with people’s future, from poor health to drug dependency, alcoholism suicide, and crime. Once people fall in those traps they often cannot get out of it. (No one chooses to be a drug addict, its a result of a grim harch life).
People dont have for genetics for criminality, but rather genetics for survival. And so in troubled areas, people who get raised there, have a different ethics to survive. ( like drug dealers or bank robbers or murderers for example ). So environment influences how people grow up, poor neighborhoods are recipe for a serial killer, or dealer..
Many correlated factors.. with to us impossible effects.. that sounds almost as something that a neural net could solve. Just imagine a Neural net could provide financial aid and infrastructural planning to raise a global equal average income, and safety.
..At the speed AI is evolving i think people working in AI, should think on how they plan an ideal future, instead of having their ideal app-click-bussines
Agree with you on everything except the genetics for criminality. The MAO-A gene has been definitively shown to be highly correlated with aggression, antisocial behavior, impulsiveness, violence, and criminal behavior. It is certainly a gene for increased propensity for criminality (even though it doesn’t cause these behaviors).