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Predictive Policing Software Is Terrible At Predicting Crimes (themarkup.org)
submitted 11 months ago by FlyingSquid@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] deranger@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

How do you figure that’s worse than random? Randomly attempting to predict crimes would likely be 0% accurate. I’m not supporting predictive policing at all, just curious what brought you to that conclusion.

There are near infinite failure conditions and few successful conditions.

[–] Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

If you randomly selected a citizen as the culprit every time a crime was committed the only percentage of accuracy it wouldn't be is 0%, because it's inevitable you would be right at least once.