Crimes Against Persons | 2026-06-29T08:05:56.071890
AI systems making discriminatory decisions in hiring, lending, criminal justice, housing
• COMPAS recidivism bias (ProPublica 2016)
• Amazon hiring AI sexism (2018)
• Apple Card gender discrimination (2019)
• HUD housing algorithm bias (2021)
• Mandatory algorithmic bias audits (annual, independent)
• Public algorithm registry with bias metrics
• Right to explanation for all AI decisions
• Ban pre-dispute arbitration for AI decisions
• EEOC AI enforcement division with technical staff
• Algorithmic Impact Assessment requirement (like EIA)
Insurance companies denying medically necessary care resulting in death
• 68,000 deaths/year from lack of insurance (Harvard)
• UnitedHealth 32% claim denial rate
• Private equity hospital closures
• Insulin rationing deaths (3,000+/year)
• Criminal liability for insurance denial resulting in death
• Mandatory reporting of all denial-of-care deaths to DOJ
• Repeal McCarran-Ferguson antitrust exemption
• Universal healthcare (Medicare for All or equivalent)
• Ban prior authorization for life-sustaining treatment
• Independent physician review of all denials (not insurer employees)
Pharmaceutical companies inflating insulin prices 10-40x production cost
• Insulin list price: $274/vial vs $2.28 production cost (Yale 2018)
• 1.3M ration insulin (JAMA 2023)
• 3,000+ rationing deaths/year
• Eli Lilly $35 cap only after public pressure 2023
• Criminal price gouging statute for essential medicines
• Mandatory PBM rebate transparency
• Medicare negotiation for all insulin (not just selected)
• Ban patent evergreening for insulin
• Allow insulin importation from certified foreign sources
• Criminal liability for insulin rationing deaths
Systematic non-physical abuse creating psychological captivity
• UK criminalized coercive control 2015 (s.76 Serious Crime Act)
• Evan Stark research: 60% of domestic abuse cases involve coercive control
• 1 in 4 women experience it
• Only 5 US states have criminalized it
• Federal coercive control statute (modeled on UK s.76)
• Mandatory law enforcement training on coercive control patterns
• Specialized prosecution units in every DA office
• Coercive control risk assessment in all DV calls
• Financial independence programs for victims
• Mandatory therapy for perpetrators as condition of probation