REMARKS
Community United for Police Reform member's comments on data accuracy and economic factors
1:16:11
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68 sec
Kezilar Cornish from Community United for Police Reform provides additional insights on data accuracy and introduces economic factors influencing policing practices.
- Cornish questions the reliability of data provided by the police department without external oversight
- He introduces the concept of 'job security' in law enforcement and its impact on policing practices
- Cornish suggests that economic motivations may influence targeting and imprisonment rates
- He emphasizes the need for an outside agency or group to verify the accuracy of police data
Kezilar Cornish
1:16:11
In terms of data and accurate data, since there's no oversight, any piece of data that we receive is data that is put out by the same people who are corrupt in terms of their police practicing.
1:16:28
And if we were to go further, which we should, many it's not just about racism.
1:16:39
We find that most of the data crunching has to do with funding.
1:16:44
And so we have to look into the economics of this thing because they create what you call job security.
1:16:51
That is a term in law enforcement.
1:16:53
And so they target people and continue to keep people coming to the prison system so that they can ensure that their jobs will be there and available for them and their children as they go on 10, 20 years from now.
1:17:07
And so, in terms of any data, there has to be some sort of outside agency or groups of people that are there to, determine whether or not the data that's coming in is actually accurate.
