I think you'd need to know the distribution of criminal suspects, which may or may not reflect the general population. For example if 50% of the suspects are wh

I think you'd need to know the distribution of criminal suspects, which may or may not reflect the general population. For example if 50% of the suspects are white, then 80% of the population being black wouldn't matter. Right? EDIT: On second thought perhaps not, I think some are arguing for a biased training dataset, which would presumable be the "population."