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Study Finds Predictive Policing Software Is Actually Pretty Terrible at Predicting Crimes

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Predictive policing—the trendy law enforcement field that uses data collection and analysis to try to predict where crimes will occur—has been wildly popular with police departments across the country. Unfortunately, though some cops swear by it, there hasn’t always been a ton of evidence that the tech actually works

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Source: gizmodo.com