
Predictive Policing: Bias In, Bias Out
Data & Society
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Drug Crimes in Oakland
This is what we call, again, to go back to the terminologyis talking about earlier bias data. The crimes that occur here and along here are much more likely to end up in the police data base than the ones that happen over here or over there. So this sort of begs the question, who's living in these places that are vastly over represented in the data? Who are the residents of those areas? And i've tried to match up the here, in this line here, on these two maps the best i could. What happens then if we apply predictive policing, a predictive policing algrithm, to this data? We have this data from two thousand ten. What happens
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