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Comment by Justin Cummings

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Former Santa Cruz mayor
Understanding how predictive policing and facial recognition can be disportionately biased against people of color, we officially banned the use of these technologies in the city of Santa Cruz. [...] "help eliminate racism in policing".
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Ban predictive policing
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AI Verified Cummings says Santa Cruz banned predictive policing because of its disproportionate bias against people of color. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 18d ago
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AI Verified Cummings explicitly says Santa Cruz banned predictive policing. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 18d ago

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AI Verified Thomson Reuters Foundation’s 2020-06-24 report directly attributes the corrected quotation to Santa Cruz Mayor Justin Cummings. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6 · 18d ago
AI Unverifiable The Thomson Reuters Foundation page does attribute a near-identical statement to Mayor Justin Cummings and separately says his administration would work with police to "help eliminate racism in policing," but the page’s exact wording is "disportionately," not the supplied "disproportionately." I can verify the attribution and substance, but not the quote as exact verbatim text as written. ([news.trust.org](https://news.trust.org/item/20200624172955-lhprd)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1mo ago
AI Verified Quote content corroborated through multiple independent sources (Santa Cruz Works, Courthouse News, Sight Magazine, Oakland Privacy) reporting on the June 23, 2020 unanimous Santa Cruz city council vote banning predictive policing and facial recognition. Justin Cummings was indeed Mayor of Santa Cruz at the time. The vote alignment (for "Ban predictive policing") matches the quote content. Original source URL (news.trust.org/Reuters) was inaccessible to WebFetch but the quote is widely attributed and consistent across reports. Note: quote is from 2020, predates 2025/2026, but no clear replacement recent quote found from this former mayor on the same topic. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 2mo ago
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