Though crime happens everywhere, predictive policing tools send cops to poor/black neighborhoods
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1XH8X)
Researchers from the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (previously) obtained a copy of the Predpol predictive policing system that police departments around America have spent a fortune on in order to find out where to set their patrols, and fed it Oakland's 2010 arrest data, then asked it to predict where the crime would be in 2011. (more")