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Bond is severely racist too, if you take those criteria. Black people get assigned higher bond, and often have a harder time getting it together. As such there
by Anderkent 8y ago
Bond is severely racist too, if you take those criteria. Black people get assigned higher bond, and often have a harder time getting it together. As such there are many people in jail that are in no way a risk but are held because they can't afford bond.
- panic 8y agoFrom this perspective, bond-based pretrial detention is actually better -- communities can organize bail funds to reduce its impact. You can't really fight algorithmic detention in the same way.
- rectang 8y agoOur awareness that machine learning algorithms have the potential to make racist decisions gives us something to watch out for as these systems roll out. Hopefully addressing any flaws will be a matter of ordinary debugging. Regardless, the cash bail system is terrible and I'm anticipating big improvements as we move away from it.