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Are Predictive Police Algorithms a Good Idea?
In recent years, there've been algodan developed to look at huge amounts of data and help police reduce crime by perhaps suggesting where a crime is most likely to occur. So for example, if you're looking at reports of drug crimes, police respond to a lot more drug crimes in black communities. But i wonder, though, if mathematicians don't get involved in this, it is the concern that these things will just be done anyway? Yes. It's tricky because you don't want to say, let's not get science involved. The worry that these mathematicians have is that their work is sort of lending this veneer of respectability and, ah, yes, it
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