There's a new sheriff in town and they call it Big Data. The new and rapidly growing trend in law enforcement is Predictive Policing or Pre-Crime. Tom Cruise will not save minorities from this report. Several major U.S. cities have already implemented the program, including Chicago and Los Angeles with thirty more waiting in line to catch the next wave in combating crime. Cheerleaders of this trend obviously didn't heed Philip K. Dick's ominous warning. Predictive Policing has major flaws: Facts (and data) don't care about your feelings and algorithms don't parity for bias. The data driving the robot cops is supplied by flesh-and-blood police officers, who have proven, historically and unabashedly, to show prejudice. If metrics prevail in policing, there won't be any people at which to point a finger. After all, how can a computer be racist?
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