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DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – An in-development Microsoft smart phone app designed to help drivers and pedestrians avoid unsafe neighborhoods is proving controversial among some minority rights groups that find the software potentially discriminatory.
And here we go again with the buffoonery. Microsoft is the villain. It certainly wouldn't be the drugs, robberies, assaults, murders, rapes, etc. in these neighborhoods that makes these neighborhoods avoidable. "Look, Bob! It's a real life drug dealer! Let's go buy some weed so they can revamp that old crack house and turn it into a meth lab."
The app targets unsafe neighborhoods, not black people. There was nothing mentioned about race, until this genius brought it up. So, without even realizing it, she's attaching black folk to the problem. What would Al Sharpton think?
I'd be more concerned about what constitutes "high crime". Some neighborhoods have crime but aren't as dangerous and worth visiting.
The thing is that crime numbers can be skewed, making the neighborhood appear more dangerous than it is. For instance, on a per capita basis, the most dangerous neighborhoods in NYC are in Midtown Manhattan. Why? Because very few people live there, but a lot of people pass through there, giving the opportunity for more crime to be committed. However, since the population is low, you have a smaller denominator, and so the crime rate will look higher.
Then again, anybody with half a brain knows that Midtown is far from the most dangerous area in the city.
In a few forums on this board (like the Philly forum for instance), people post safety maps, and safe areas are in green, borderline areas are in yellow and orange, and dangerous areas are in red. Would the app work like that?
I do not need an app to tell me to avoid the entire lower-49. That is just common sense.
Couldn't have said it better myself! I'll take a weekend at Hatchers or at base camp 10 miles behind gracious house off the Denali before downtown anywhere outside..
DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – An in-development Microsoft smart phone app designed to help drivers and pedestrians avoid unsafe neighborhoods is proving controversial among some minority rights groups that find the software potentially discriminatory.
And here we go again with the buffoonery. Microsoft is the villain. It certainly wouldn't be the drugs, robberies, assaults, murders, rapes, etc. in these neighborhoods that makes these neighborhoods avoidable. "Look, Bob! It's a real life drug dealer! Let's go buy some weed so they can revamp that old crack house and turn it into a meth lab."
The app targets unsafe neighborhoods, not black people. There was nothing mentioned about race, until this genius brought it up. So, without even realizing it, she's attaching black folk to the problem. What would Al Sharpton think?
I'd be more concerned about what constitutes "high crime". Some neighborhoods have crime but aren't as dangerous and worth visiting.
Does that app also tell you where the cheapest gas stations are?
Ahh, the NAACP with nothing better to do..............again. I personally applaud the feature. Instead of getting up in arms over helping people avoid the dangerous and unsafe ghetto, how about those idiots do more to make those places more welcoming and less dangerous? Just a suggestion. Theyre simply pulling a race card, as usual. Go for it MS and dont cave in.
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