Predictive Policing Software Terrible At Predicting Crimes – The Markup
themarkup.orgA software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1% of the time
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That’s because you’re not engraving the suspects name in wooden balls based on the dreams of 3 people sleeping in some weird hot tubs.
To be honest in the US, most crimes are already Minority Reports