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   Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 04:17:20 JST Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

   It was obvious from the outset that predictive policing was a scam (not to mention a vehicle for accelerating overpolicing), but it's really valuable to have this careful reporting of just bad it is:

   https://themarkup.org/prediction-bias/2023/10/02/predictive-policing-software-terrible-at-predicting-crimes

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     Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 04:37:43 JST Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)

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     • Misuse Case

     @MisuseCase

     As I said in the post you are directly responding to: "It was obvious from the outset that predictive policing was a scam (not to mention a vehicle for accelerating overpolicing)"

     This site remains 'splainy AF.

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     Misuse Case (misusecase@twit.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 04:37:45 JST Misuse Case

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     @emilymbender The algorithms for predictive policing were always fed by crime and arrest data generated from…surveillance and enforcement primarily targeted at poor and/or non-white people! So guess what those algorithms are going to tell cops to do more of? Bias in, bias out.