Blazingcatfur

This weekend proved Flavor Flav was right. His posse, Public Enemy, released a song 35 years ago, 911 Is a Joke.

So get up, get, get, get down
911 is a joke in yo town

911 isn’t a joke of course. I’ve seen it in action on a personal basis. I like cops too.

Police policy is the problem. Politicians have hamstrung the police. And the joke is killing innocents.

No offence but you cannot rely on the police for protection.

You can contribute to TPS’ great record solving murder cases. Of course that means you died because they couldn’t help you. 

No guns means we are mere collateral damage so the pols can virtue signal about the need for more and better gun control. 

It was my first personal experience with an Artificial Intelligence “hallucination” — the tendency of AI to just make things up.
When a Toronto homicide detective probing the unsolved murders of Toronto billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman revealed he had turned to AI for help, I figured, heck, I should try too.

I uploaded almost 4,000 pages of partially unsealed police documents, containing witness statements and police theories. On some pages, you can read everything police wrote to obtain various search warrants in the now eight-year-old case. Some pages are partially or completely blacked out. The Toronto Star’s court challenges over the past eight years have unsealed roughly 60 per cent of these documents.

One might expect researchers to have settled the question long ago of whether poverty causes crime. On the surface, the answer seems obvious. A correlation certainly exists: anyone working in the criminal-justice system—or simply walking through a low-income neighborhood—could observe that the poor are more prone to crime. But is the relationship causal? As the old Gershwin tune reminds us, it ain’t necessarily so.

We were poor by the day’s standards lower working class, K was raised by her single Mum. None of us imprisoned. So far.