Surya Mattu

Oct 20, 2023 | llrx.com | Aaron Sankin |Surya Mattu

A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1% of the timeCrime predictions generated for the police department in Plainfield, New Jersey, rarely lined up with reported crimes, an analysis by The Markup has found, adding new context to the debate over the efficacy of crime prediction software.

Oct 2, 2023 | defenseone.com | Aaron Sankin |Surya Mattu

After we requested this information from the 38 departments in our original investigation, only Plainfield provided us with more than one day’s worth of data on officer patrol locations. We tested Geolitica’s accuracy by comparing the system’s predictions to crime reports, which only capture crimes reported to police, not instances when someone was victimized but elected not to inform law enforcement.

Oct 2, 2023 | themarkup.org | Aaron Sankin |Surya Mattu

This article was copublished with WIRED. Crime predictions generated for the police department in Plainfield, New Jersey, rarely lined up with reported crimes, an analysis by The Markup has found, adding new context to the debate over the efficacy of crime prediction software. Geolitica, known as PredPol until a 2021 rebrand, produces software that ingests data from crime incident reports and produces daily predictions on where and when crimes are most likely to occur.

Oct 2, 2023 | themarkup.org | Aaron Sankin |Surya Mattu

In the first installment of our series Prediction: Bias, we investigated the use of Geolitica, a software that claims to take historical crime data and predict where and when future crime is most likely to occur. We found the software disproportionately directed officers to patrol neighborhoods with relatively higher percentages of low-income, Black, and Latino residents compared to those cities or counties on the whole.

Oct 2, 2023 | technewstube.com | Aaron Sankin |Surya Mattu

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