There is good reason to believe that predictive policing software simply reinforces past, biased information to predict crime. It is certainly under heavy scrutiny, as it seeks to predict in advance exactly who will commit crimes. It’s the subject of dystopian...
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Crime prediction software is here. Data show it perpetuates bias.
Statistics have long shown that people of color are no more likely, due to their races, than White people to commit crimes. However, according to the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics, Black people, Latinos, and poor people are more likely that wealthier white...
Many police interrogation techniques are causing false confessions
False confessions are a real danger in the criminal justice system. According to the National Registry of Exonerations, 12% of all exonerations since 1989 involved a false confession. According to the Innocence Project, that number goes up to 62% when considering...
Is data-driven policing just tech-based stereotyping?
With constant calls for police to stop racial profiling, law enforcement agencies want concrete, race-neutral information to help them target people based on their behavior alone. Many officers believe that a small number of people are responsible for the majority of...