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> predictive policing relies on algorithms to interpret police records, analyzing arrest or parole data to send officers to target chronic offenders, or identif
by CivBase 6y ago
> predictive policing relies on algorithms to interpret police records, analyzing arrest or parole data to send officers to target chronic offenders, or identifying places where crime may occur.
So... instead of using algorithms, how will the police decide where to patrol heaviest? Putting a human in charge of that seems like a great way to increase racial bias. Or am I misunderstanding what "predictive policing" is?
- blueplanet200 6y agoI'm very curious what "banning" predictive policing even means here. In the broadest sense, predictive policing is using data to inform where crime will happen in the future. Is this to say you can't use historical trends to allocate police in a city? Should police be allocated only based on population size/density in a region? Is using your knowledge of what neighborhoods tend to be "crime heavy" predictive? Are they crime heavy because of increased policing (you found more crime because you were looking) or because there really was more crime? What is the line here?