[aslewofmice]

private data-driven policing will end up reinforcing any institutional racism under the guise of math

[aaronbrethorst]

99% Invisible had a great episode that touched on this last Fall. Well worth 20 minutes of your time: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-age-of-the-algori...

[flother]

And Cathy O’Neil's book Weapons of Math Destruction, mentioned in the episode, is also well worth reading.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0141985410

[manjushri]

Lest we forget:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

[s_m_t]

Allowing environments where violent criminals and murderers are allowed to thrive IS institutional racism

[uoaei]

And giving officers the ability to claim anyone fits within that tiny subset of the population based on spurious correlations is institutional racism.

Protect the innocent, or sacrifice them for the good of catching some baddies?