Blog post 7

A global pandemic, hopefully, brought the topics this book presents into a clearer focus for people reading it today. These are topics I am well versed in and have been looking into from my very first year at KU, and I share the same opinion as O’Neil. The overall message of wanting to fix these models is personally not a route I would like to see, as I think we need to remove these models. The overall outlook on policing is not critical enough as we see O’Neil clearly states the issue with stop and frisk and the issues presented with policing focusing on people of color. Our police force is a militarized group that preys on people of color to keep them in prison and people who don’t commit crime out in the open, such as the finance world, can get away with it because they are not targeted by the models or the ground force of police roaming the streets. Consider what a police officer’s job is, and what they are supposed to even do in our society. They can’t prevent crime from happening because that the same as the current system, they just target minorities. The poor are the most poorly treated members of society and that’s a problem, our elected officials aren’t going to do anything and people are so normalized and desensitized they don’t want to do anything about it. We have an entire political party that is mostly formed up of poor and uneducated white people that fully agree with the idea that they aren’t underprivileged in a society where we glorify the rich. People like Elon Musk get away with removing safety regulations in factories and saying people don’t need stimulus checks while he sucks up resources for the grand delusion of colonizing Mars. We have our issues still on earth and until people finally band together and see how terrible it is and fight back we won’t end the issues in our society and the mathematical models are only going to bring a swifter downfall of the poverty groups.