This is actually the real problem. Police patrols have to be directed somewhere, somehow. It's either the whim of the commisioner, or gut feeling of the officer

This is actually the real problem. Police patrols have to be directed somewhere, somehow. It's either the whim of the commisioner, or gut feeling of the officers, or machine learning software. When one says that machine learning software is terrible, you have to trust either the officers, or their boss. I have a feeling that the same people who criticize the software trust rank-and-file officers even less..