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# Crime Prediction Software Promised to Be Free of Biases. New Data Shows It Perpetuates Them
- URL: https://werd.io/crime-prediction-software-promised-to-be-free-of-biases-new/
- Published: 2021-12-03T19:35:18.000Z
- Updated: 2021-12-03T19:35:18.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:24

"Millions of crime predictions left on an unsecured server show PredPol mostly avoided Whiter neighborhoods, targeted Black and Latino neighborhoods. \[...\] “No one has done the work you guys are doing, which is looking at the data,” said Andrew Ferguson, a law professor at American University who is a national expert on predictive policing. “This isn’t a continuation of research. This is actually the first time anyone has done this, which is striking because people have been paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for this technology for a decade.”"

\[[Link](https://themarkup.org/prediction-bias/2021/12/02/crime-prediction-software-promised-to-be-free-of-biases-new-data-shows-it-perpetuates-them)\]