Wednesday, 19 February 2014

The minority report: Chicago's new police computer predicts crimes, but is it racist?

The minority report: Chicago's new police computer predicts crimes, but is it racist?
Feb 19th 2014, 14:31, by mattstroud


When the Chicago Police Department sent one of its commanders to Robert McDaniel’s home last summer, the 22-year-old high school dropout was surprised. Though he lived in a neighborhood well-known for bloodshed on its streets, he hadn’t committed a crime or interacted with a police officer recently. And he didn’t have a violent criminal record, nor any gun violations. In August, he incredulously told the Chicago Tribune, "I haven't done nothing that the next kid growing up hadn't...
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