Predictive Policing Software Is Terrible At Predicting Crimes
Predictive Policing Software Is Terrible At Predicting Crimes
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A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1% of the time
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The police need crimes and criminals to justify their existence. If the criminals are selected by a computer program, that is sufficient for their purposes.
Nobody likes unsolved crimes, so justice will now be dispensed arbitrarily based on an algorithm.
Simply convict one person for each crime. The computer pointed at that person for this crime so they must be guilty.
Sorry Aaron, it's alphabetical order.
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