New crime prediction software being rolled out in the nation’s capital should reduce not only the murder rate, but the rate of many other crimes as well.
Developed by Richard Berk, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the software is already used in Baltimore and Philadelphia to predict which individuals on probation or parole are most likely to murder and to be murdered.
In his latest version, the one being implemented in D.C., Berk goes even further, identifying the individuals most likely to commit crimes other than murder.
Oooooh…I hope it works at least as well as weather forcast algorithms. I wonder if it will stand if challenged under the 14th Amendment’s equal protection clause?
Look, look. “Racial” profiling. Naughty naughty.
Everything hangs on whose bull is being gored, doesn’t it? Larry
I don’t think it takes much of an algorithm to predict that the probability of continuing violent crime while on parole after having already been incarcerated for violent crime before. It’s called pattern behavior.