Adrian O. Alegria
GoCurrent.com
Predictive policing algorithms are racist. They need to be dismantled.
The problem lies with the data the algorithms feed upon. For one thing, predictive algorithms are easily skewed by arrest rates. According to US Department of Justice figures, you are more than twice as likely to be arrested if you are Black than if you are white. A Black person is five times as ...
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Predictive policing algorithms are racist. They need to be dismantled.
The problem lies with the data the algorithms feed upon. For one thing, predictive algorithms are easily skewed by arrest rates. According to US Department of Justice figures, you are more than twice as likely to be arrested if you are Black than if you are white. A Black person is five times as ...
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