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The Real Minority Report Predictive Policing Algorithms Reflect Racial Bias Present in Corrupted Historic Databases
by Matt Clarke
In Steven Spielberg’s science fiction movie, Minority Report, police armed with nebulously sourced predictions of people who are supposedly going to commit murder before they can actually do so. Troublingly, only a few years after the film’s 2002 release, a real-world version of predictive policing was ...
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