Predictive Policing

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More "cold water" on predictive policing:

But according to a study to be published later this month in the academic journal Significance, PredPol may merely be reinforcing bad police habits. When researchers from the Human Rights Data Analysis Group — a nonprofit dedicated to using science to analyze human-rights violations around the world — applied the tool to crime data in Oakland, the algorithm recommended that police deploy officers to neighborhoods with mostly black residents. As it happens, police in Oakland were already sending officers into these areas.

Link:https://mic.com/articles/156286/crim...ows#.3IhFXDIIh

The cited journal Significance is an Anglo-US publication of the two national statistical groups. The article is behind a pay-wall alas, here is a summary:https://www.statslife.org.uk/signifi...-issue-preview