> There's nothing that prevents a think tank from working with domain experts One issue here is that the pool of domain experts depends on the different incent

> There's nothing that prevents a think tank from working with domain experts One issue here is that the pool of domain experts depends on the different incentives faced by different researchers. If the top machine learning conferences all decide to reject papers about predictive policing, then this will reduce the incentive for machine learning researchers (who mostly want to publish in these conferences) to work in the area at all. Maybe critics of predictive policing think this is good, or think that it's better for the field to restrict itself to the few computer science researchers who are prepared to seriously devote themselves to it? But there don't seem to be very many of them. And, as someone who thinks there is a lot of room for police departments to in general do a better job --- and I think most of the people arguing against predictive policing would believe the same! --- it's disappointing to me that the end result of this argument seems to be disincentivizing technical research on it.