Archived version: https://archive.ph/xwVVr
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20231004004714/https://themarkup.org/prediction-bias/2023/10/02/predictive-policing-software-terrible-at-predicting-crimes
Methodology: https://themarkup.org/show-your-work/2023/10/02/how-we-assessed-the-accuracy-of-predictive-policing-software
Amazing…. 0.6% accuracy at best AND it heavily favoured poor and black neighborhoods.
You could have more success with a racist plinko board dropping pucks to see which poor black neighborhoods to patrol.