Victoria police refuses to reveal how many young people tracked using secretive data tool
by Nino Bucci from World news | The Guardian on (#5AQ5D)
Fears young people from culturally diverse backgrounds are being disproportionately targeted
Victorian police say a secretive data tool that tracked youths and predicted the risk they would commit crime is not being widely used, amid fears it leads to young people from culturally diverse backgrounds being disproportionately targeted.
The tool, which had been used in Dandenong and surrounding suburbs, was only revealed in interviews with police officers published earlier this year.
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