<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Pet peeve: Numbers without Context<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><table class="container" lang="container" dir="ltr" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" valign="top" style="font-size: 12px; width: 648px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="message-wrapper" style="padding-top: 6px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""> 2018 $3.076 billion dollars on DHS Custody Operations</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">about 4% of the budget</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I couldn’t find Custody numbers before 2018 numbers...</div><div class="">2012 $60 </div><div class="">2013 $61</div><div class="">2014 $60</div><div class="">2015 $64</div><div class="">2016 $66</div><div class="">2017 $67</div><div class="">2018 $74 $3.0 - about 4.1% of the budget</div><div class="">2019 $74 $3.5 - 4.7%</div><div class="">2020 $92 $3.7 - 4.0% (clever way to reduce "costs"…)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Numbers are from the "budgets in brief" for the years 2014, 17 and 20,</div><div class="">on: <a href="https://www.dhs.gov/dhs-budget" class="">https://www.dhs.gov/dhs-budget</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also, 40,000 people detained is about 1.7% of the number incarcerated in the US,</div><div class="">about 2.3 million (2016), about 1% of the population… (snide comment elided)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">200 deaths/year for 40k people seems to be about twice the death rate of state prisons.</div><div class="">(<a href="https://www.bjs.gov/content/dcrp/tables/dcst07spt3.pdf" class="">https://www.bjs.gov/content/dcrp/tables/dcst07spt3.pdf</a></div><div class="">says for all state prisoners, it was about 250/100k people 2001-2007)</div><div class="">It might just be the poor medical care that makes the difference...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Note that 40,000 people per year at $3B is $75/k per person.</div><div class="">The average annual cost of incarceration is $20k-$40k.</div><div class="">(Maybe the lousy medical care is more expensive?)</div><div class="">-r</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 30, 2020, at 7:29 AM, Yosem Companys <<a href="mailto:yosem@techlantis.com" class="">yosem@techlantis.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><table class="container" lang="container" dir="ltr" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" valign="top" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; width: 648px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="message-wrapper" style="padding-top: 6px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">On any given day, 40,000 people are detained by ICE in unsafe and unsanitary conditions with substandard medical care and sporadic, if any, access to legal counsel.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">These conditions have led directly to nearly two hundred detainee deaths at the hands of ICE.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And if the human costs are not enough to persuade you, consider the financial ones. In 2018, taxpayers spent $3.076 billion dollars on DHS Custody Operations. A budget four times greater than the Department of Education's English Language Acquisition programs.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In addition to the cruelty of ICE and the financial costs to taxpayers, ICE is the public face of the United States’ ever-expanding domestic surveillance apparatus. How? Through lucrative contracts with privately held technology companies like Palantir, Microsoft, and even darling GitHub.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Are we complicit?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">At present, Palantir has 188 repositories hosted on GitHub, which rely on thousands of open source projects. Every dependency in use by ICE and Palantir contributes to human rights violations. Each dependency is a stone in the wall between reality and the dream of open source as a champion of freedom, liberty and equality.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What can we do?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Students across the country are organizing to stop Palantir from recruiting on their campuses. Whistleblowers are risking everything to go public detailing how their companies are complicit. International human rights groups are investigating ICE. And immigrant rights activists are working tirelessly to protect vulnerable people from the evils of the current anti-immigrant policies put in place by the Trump administration (and other administrations before his.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It's time for software developers to step up, too.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So what can you as a developer do?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><ul class=""><li class="">You have a tech industry salary. You can probably afford to donate $100 a month to #NoTechForICE causes.</li><li class="">Support and participate in #NoTechForICE protests and programs.</li><li class="">Keep your code from being used by ICE by adopting an Ethical Source license.</li><li class="">If all else fails, pull your public code.</li></ul></div><div class="">Tear Down The Wall!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is the wall that open source has built for ICE. 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