These com­mu­ni­ties weren’t just tar­geted more—in some cases, they were tar­geted relent­lessly. Crimes were pre­dicted every day, some­times mul­tiple times a day, some­times in mul­tiple loca­tions in the same neigh­bor­hood: thou­sands upon thou­sands of crime pre­dic­tions over years. A few neigh­bor­hoods in our data were the sub­ject of more than 11,000 pre­dic­tions.
The soft­ware often rec­om­mended daily patrols in and around public and sub­si­dized housing, tar­geting the poorest of the poor.
“Com­mu­ni­ties with trou­bled rela­tion­ships with police—this is not what they need,” said Jay Stanley, a senior policy ana­lyst at the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. “They need resources to fill basic social needs.”

‘It will be “evil” if we cannot answer the ques­tions that the world needs about Omicron due to the travel ban.’ The world needs SA’s Omicron data and SA needs reagents. However, Professor Tulio de Oliveira said he will only accept reagent ship­ments once travel bans are lifted.

To end AIDS by 2030, we must over­come fear, dis­crim­i­na­tion and stigma to ensure treat­ments and mes­sages are equally and equitably acces­sible.

(*) Right now, the World Trade Organization is con­sid­ering a pro­posal that would help end the pan­demic. This would tem­porarily waive patent pro­tec­tions on vac­cine recipes.
(*) But the European Union, the United Kingdom, Switzerland,Norway, and Singapore are blocking it, endan­gering mil­lions of lives around the world.
(*) This is a clear vio­la­tion of our right to health — of nurses, care­givers, and patients. So we are now taking them to court.
(*) We demand an urgent inves­ti­ga­tion into the obstruc­tion of the waiver by these Covid-19 crim­i­nals.