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Predictive Policing Software Is Terrible At Predicting Crimes

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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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Nobody likes unsolved crimes, so justice will now be dispensed arbitrarily based on an algorithm.
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  Simply convict one person for each crime. The computer pointed at that person for this crime so they must be guilty.
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    Sorry Aaron, it’s alphabetical order.

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