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Predictive Policing Software Is Terrible At Predicting Crimes

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Predictive Policing Software Is Terrible At Predicting Crimes

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TechnologyEnglish • 1 year ago

Predictive Policing Software Terrible At Predicting Crimes – The Markup

A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1% of the time

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I know how they could make it thousands of times more accurate. Just rewrite it to always point at Wall Street.

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