Predictive Policing Software Terrible At Predicting Crimes
Predictive Policing Software Terrible At Predicting Crimes
themarkup.org Predictive Policing Software Terrible At Predicting Crimes – The Markup
A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1% of the time
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Methodology: https://themarkup.org/show-your-work/2023/10/02/how-we-assessed-the-accuracy-of-predictive-policing-software
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Amazing…. 0.6% accuracy at best AND it heavily favoured poor and black neighborhoods.
You could have more success with a racist plinko board dropping pucks to see which poor black neighborhoods to patrol.