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01 / belief
“Again, since my experience as a lawyer was primarily in the government sector, it’s hard for me to assess the tradeoffs in automation and in deprofessionalization, as well as outsourcing law work.”
02 / belief
“I think that the analytic tools that I learned as an engineer definitely informed the way I think about legal issues.”
03 / belief
“If you’re talking about ranked 30 to 40, sure. If you’re talking about ranked 150 to 200, then I think the answer is no.”
04 / belief
“From engineering, I learned to start with an outline and decide what I wanted to say, and then write all the sections to meet my outline.”
05 / belief
“The studies on gender show a little bit better effect than the studies on racial diversity in policing, and I think communities do value diverse police departments that reflect what the community looks like.”
06 / belief
“I think the police should not be able to open your smartphone when they see you on the street, but with a warrant, sure.”
07 / belief
“Of course, most of the data we get is officer-reported, so they’re useful. It’s not clear whether body cams are going to be an important form of data in policing, but I suspect, over time, they will be.”
08 / belief
“I’m a lawyer, but I try to follow the social science in this area, and I can tell you that what we know right now is that the results of studies of body cameras, at least in terms of if you’re studying whether they reduce complaints or whether they reduce uses of force, the studies are, at best, mixed. I would say the evidence that they do good in these respects is pretty weak.”
09 / belief
“I think setting up some national standards so that we not only have a federal intervention in making police more effective or federal intervention in suing police departments and prosecuting police officers, but national standards for ensuring that policing is actually beneficial, that we’re harm minimizing, that it’s fair, and that it’s authorized by local communities.”
10 / belief
“I think we should set minimum age standards that are above 18, which many states have as a minimum age standard. But in terms of education or other more subtle factors, I think the effects can often be subtle, and when we look at what creates problems in policing, departments create officers.”