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These fucking computers...here's my story:
A family member used my name to write worthless checks in 1990s when I was a kid which resulted in "criminal summons" being issued. Family member went to jail but the summons in my name were never cleared properly.
30 years later in 2023 they moved records into a new computer system and suddenly those 30 year old summons showed up as arrest warrants when cops ran my ID. And the dumb fucking cops arrested me.
Literally NOBODY knew how to get these obviously false "warrants" off the computers. Not the DA, not magistrate, not the cops, nobody. The only thing I could do was be charged and show up to court. While waiting for the court date I was arrested AGAIN. (Remember they can't take it off at all, even though I have a court date SMFH.)
The Judge was pretty pissed off when she read my case. I guess they finally were able to delete it somehow.
The 2nd time I was arrested, I told the dumb fucking cop while he was driving me to jail that he was going to be driving me back to my car soon. Sure enough before we got to the jail, his cellphone starts ringing and so he had to pull over, removed my handcuffs, and then drove me all the way back to my car like my private chauffeur.
So that was pretty satisfying at least.
anyone who designs a computer system without escape hatches when it’s wrong isn’t an engineer; they’re a fucking fraud
the single most important thing to understand about software is that no matter what, it will fail… if there are no ways for the people-system to force it right, it’s an enormous liability
A: There is no way that a computer system doesn't have a way to dispose of warrants cases are dispositioned every single day. B: The actual fix absent the privileges to disposition the case would be to give the person a contant in the system and a card and tell arresting officers to call the number on the card. Confirm it and just not arrest based on a known false warrant.
In the end people are the escape hatch they are expected to do the right thing not the computer. Nobody cares if they gave you a button for "do the right thing"
But "They where just following orders"! /s
Exception: Developing cryptographic proofs.