SOC 3750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Predictive Policing, Risk Society, Big Data
6 Dec 2016
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Clearly just a media front gives officers valid excuse to point to in the face of criticism. Worry about use of software to harass people in low socioeconomic neighbourhoods. Difference between who is gonna commit a crime and where a crime is going to happen. Atlanta aggregate crime reduced by 8. 5% Concerns about people being targeted just because system has identified a place as being a high crime location for example, where their houses are. Arrests not the purpose deterrence is just additional presence of police in the right spot. Trying hard not to profile anybody but what if you just happen to live in that neighbourhood? unfairly subject to additional police scrutiny, probably more suspiciously. What do supporters say: predpol website says it works. What does the science say: it predicted 1. 4-2. 2 times the crime compared to a standard crime analyst in la, 7. 4% reduction in crime in 3 la divisions, police argue.
