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The Human Rights Implications of Predictive Policing Algorithms

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A 2016 RAND study found that predictive policing systems can lead to disproportionate police stops in minority neighborhoods, even when designed to be race-neutral, creating a self-fulfilling cycle of over-policing.

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What if a police officer says you're more likely to commit a crime—not because of anything you've done, but because of an algorithm's prediction? Is that even fair?