Crime Prediction Software Promised to Be Free of Biases. New Data Shows It Perpetuates Them


Source: Gizmodo

 

Between 2018 and 2021, more than one in 33 U.S. residents were potentially subject to police patrol decisions directed by crime-prediction software called PredPol.

The company that makes it sent more than 5.9 million of these crime predictions to law enforcement agencies across the country—from California to Florida, Texas to New Jersey—and we found those reports on an unsecured server.

Gizmodo and The Markup analyzed them and found persistent patterns.

Residents of neighborhoods where PredPol suggested few patrols tended to be Whiter and more middle- to upper-income. Many of these areas went years without a single crime prediction.


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LINK:
https://gizmodo.com/crime-prediction-software-promised-to-be-free-of-biases-1848138977