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Predictive Policing Software Is Terrible At Predicting Crimes (themarkup.org)

submitted 11 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] profdc9@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The police need crimes and criminals to justify their existence. If the criminals are selected by a computer program, that is sufficient for their purposes.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nobody likes unsolved crimes, so justice will now be dispensed arbitrarily based on an algorithm.

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Simply convict one person for each crime. The computer pointed at that person for this crime so they must be guilty.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 1 points 11 months ago

Sorry Aaron, it's alphabetical order.