{"id":10959,"date":"2016-11-17T21:42:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T02:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=10959"},"modified":"2016-11-17T21:42:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T02:42:13","slug":"police-are-using-software-to-predict-crime-is-it-a-holy-grail-or-biased-against-minorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/police-are-using-software-to-predict-crime-is-it-a-holy-grail-or-biased-against-minorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Police are using software to predict crime. Is it a \u2018holy grail\u2019 or biased against minorities?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I have not reviewed the code (nor do i anticipate having the opportunity to do so any time soon), but I would state with 99% certainty that any system designed to
\n“predict” future crimes based on historic data, would be biased. Most of the people in jail are people of color, so most of the “suspects” of any system based on past crime data would be people of color. This one gets a big huge #DUH.<\/p>\n

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I have not reviewed the code (nor do i anticipate having the opportunity to do so any time soon), but I would state with 99% certainty that any system designed to “predict” future crimes based on historic data, would be biased. Most of the people in jail are people of color, so most of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-10959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16075,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/03\/scientists-predict-when-out-of-control-space-station-will-crash-to-earth\/","url_meta":{"origin":10959,"position":0},"title":"Scientists predict when out-of-control space station will crash to Earth","date":"March 23, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Around and round and round we go Where she drops, nobody knows. 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