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Making the World a Safer Place

Hidden Brain

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Are Police Data a Good Predictor of Criminal Behavior?

There's a lot of evidence that police data are not a perfect measure of underlying behavior. Sarah, who now teaches at the University of Michigan, said police data cannot be simply taken to be an unbiased account of criminal behavior. Even if two people call the police to investigate different incidents, even if the incidents are more or less identical, the police response to those incidents might not be identical.

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