Re:Predictive Policing Software Is Pretty Terrible at Predic...
by pxmpxm on Tuesday October 03, 2023 @05:48PM
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> More police presence means more recorded crimes.
The article in the headline implies the opposite: statistical inference of future crime location -> more cops in said location -> no crime in said location.
It should be fairly easy to back out an out of sample data set for this - ie predicted crime location where the extra cops didn't get deployed and see if that lines up with empirical observations.
The article in the headline implies the opposite: statistical inference of future crime location -> more cops in said location -> no crime in said location.
It should be fairly easy to back out an out of sample data set for this - ie predicted crime location where the extra cops didn't get deployed and see if that lines up with empirical observations.