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by repelsteeltje 991 days ago
Beyond the fact that reported crimes are just a proxy for actual crime, this is clearly a complex, non-linear system with feedback loops. I don't see how simple statistics, markov reasoning, ML or AI could ever realistically model this with the intent being control of the surveyed system.

Huge paradox. Why even try predictive policing without Minority Report oracles to magically do the prediction?