Publish the List?

So Eddie keeps talking about this "list." This "Strategic Subject List" or SSL is a list of individuals who are either prone to be shot, to being a shooter, or having some sort of inclination toward violent crime. The higher your SSL-Score, the more likely you are to be a "justice involved individual."

This list was supposedly created via an "algorithm" on city time, by city employees, using police records and court records - all paid for with taxpayer money.

So, should it be public? Citizens should know who's on it so they can disassociate themselves from dangerous people. Citizens should be able to make sure they aren't on it improperly. Perhaps the ACLU should ensure that the Rights of everyone listed aren't being violated by secret police files gathered under unknown circumstances isn't being maintained for something shady.

A few weeks ago, Eddie was it was a list of approximately 1,300 individuals. Just this weekend, the number grew to 1,400. Yesterday, a deputy chief gave an interview that set the number at nearly 1,500:

• Chicago suffered through an especially bloody holiday weekend, with 69 people shot over the Memorial Day weekend, including six fatalities. Police said the vast majority of the victims were on a watchlist of sorts – what the department calls its “strategic subject list.”
  
  CBS 2 [...] sat down with the Chicago Police Department’s top brass to talk about how the list works.
  
  The strategic subject list uses an algorithm to try to predict who is most likely to be involved in a shooting – either as the shooter or victim – by analyzing data such as gang affiliations, criminal records, past shootings, and previous contact with police. Police use the data to reach out to individuals on the strategic subject list to try to get them help before a shooting occurs. The list includes about 1,500 people, who police have said are responsible for the majority of gun violence in Chicago.

So a secret police list, with no oversight that we can locate, has added nearly 200 names to it in just the past month. That's some real KGB or Stasi-type stuff. Lewin even admits the secrecy:

• So how does someone get on the list?
  
  “We don’t give out the specific list of variables, but it’s things like subject’s trendline in criminal activity,” Lewin said. “One of the highlights of this model is that it does not use race, gender, ethnicity, or geography.”

:::cough cough bullshit cough cough:::

So why not release it? Or subject it to an ACLU overview? Maybe the DOJ? We imagine that the reason is that regardless of what the deputy chief says, the numbers would be more reflective of the HeyJackass.com charts than any supposed "neutrality" of Lewin's algorithm.