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Why can minors wield SWAT teams without further due diligence?



1. Some situations are highly sensitive, and 2. any decision-making process for a fixed budget has a precision-recall tradeoff.


I understand both of your points; my point is maybe we should reconsider our precision-recall tradeoff if we're sending SWAT units into innocent households that result in innocent people dying. All sorts of rights violations have to happen for that to occur.


> All sorts of rights violations have to happen for that to occur.

I agree in general, but in this specific case I don't think there were any rights violations. The guy sadly had a heart attack while complying with reasonable if forceful instructions.


Well, innocent people die in both paths so we’re in an optimization problem unless you’ve decided you have concrete answers to the trolley problem that are number invariant.




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