GOVT2305: Federal Government
Civil Rights
2024-10-02
Agenda
Today
- Discussion of Houston Gunshot Detection System - Discsussion and written questions
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Letter from Birmingham Jail
- Bloody Sunday 1965
Next Monday
- Finish videos if necessary
- Discussion about today's videos in terms of public opinion, policy, effects on elections, etc.
- ...
Houston Gunshot Detection System: Benefits
Who do you think benefits most from this technology? (By income)
Who do you think benefits most from this technology? (By crime rate)
Who do you think benefits most from this technology? (By ethnicity/race)
Houston Gunshot Detection System: Potential harm
Who do you think is most likely to be harmed by this technology, for example by being falsely accuse of a crime?
Should we consider being correctly arrested for a violent crime a harm?
Houston Gunshot Detection System: Discrimination
Do you think any of these ways to use the technology would not discriminate based on race or ethnicity? (Choose any you think apply)
- deploying the system equally everywhere
- deploying the system in high income neighborhoods
- deploying the system in low income neighborhoods
- deploying the system in high crime neighborhoods
- deploying the system in high crime areas (including commercial and industrial areas)
- deploying the system in areas with high reports of gunfire
Houston Gunshot Detection System: Opinion
Do you think the technology is either useful now or could potentially be useful with modifications or improvements?
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