Technology Quarterly | Algorithm blues
The promise and peril of big-data justice
Can algorithms accurately predict where crime will occur?
EIGHT storeys above downtown Los Angeles, Sean Malinowski, deputy chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), focuses intently on a computer map of his old stomping ground. Nestled between Burbank and Santa Clarita, the Foothill district is a hotch-potch of industrial and residential districts riven by highways. Mr Malinowski ran its police station before his promotion moved him downtown.
This article appeared in the Technology Quarterly section of the print edition under the headline “Algorithm blues”
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