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To predict and serve?
Author(s) -
Lum Kristian,
Isaac William
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2016.00960.x
Subject(s) - law enforcement , enforcement , criminology , law , computer security , computer science , psychology , political science
Predictive policing systems are used increasingly by law enforcement to try to prevent crime before it occurs. But what happens when these systems are trained using biased data? Kristian Lum and William Isaac consider the evidence – and the social consequences