
Making the World a Safer Place
Hidden Brain
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Building Predictive Algorithms From Police Data
Some police departments with the help of social scientists have tried to be more proactive. We found that if you collect large amounts of police data and crunch it algorithmically, you can start to predict future criminal activity. But relying on police data to build a model of future criminal activity has two big problems. If you care about civil liberties, it could make you uneasy.
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