Thursday, November 17, 2016

Police are using software to predict crime. Is it a ‘holy grail’ or biased against minorities?

I have not reviewed the code (nor do i anticipate having the opportunity to do so any time soon), but I would state with 99% certainty that any system designed to
“predict” future crimes based on historic data, would be biased. Most of the people in jail are people of color, so most of the “suspects” of any system based on past crime data would be people of color. This one gets a big huge #DUH.

http://wapo.st/2g1t4qM



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