WF-5CSSKD
Predictive Policing Biases of PredPol
Predictive policing algorithms meant to aid law enforcement by predicting future crime show signs of biased output.
- Date it happened
- 2015-11-18
- Organisation involved
- PredPol, Oakland Police Department
- Product, system or model
- PredPol takes in past crime data and spits out predictions about where future crimes are more likely to occur. It turns those predictions into 500 by 500 foot red boxes on a Google map, indicating are
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