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Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness

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Are We Using Algorithms in Policing?

A few years ago there was a an investigation by ProPublica called machine bias. A recidivism algorithm claimed to predict who was going to be a repeat offender after they were arrested. And it turns out that this algorithm was biased against black people. So we really need to be conscious of the way that algorithms are used in policing.

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