[ExI] Nature.com article

[William Flynn Wallace]

Mathematicians call for police work boycott
<https://nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d&id=b55e47676c&e=d520e39c16>

More than 1,400 researchers have signed a letter urging their colleagues to
stop collaborating with police
<https://nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d&id=09c4b8e972&e=d520e39c16>
because
of the widely documented disparities in how US law-enforcement agencies
treat people of different races and ethnicities. They concentrate their
criticism on predictive policing, a maths-based technique aimed at stopping
crime before it occurs. Critics say that the data used to feed such
algorithms contain racial biases, and that the ‘control conditions’ for
predictive policing — ordinary policing — are racially skewed. “It is
simply too easy to create a ‘scientific’ veneer for racism,” the
mathematicians write.


Of course it's racism.  It has to be.  Crime isn't spread randomly around
town.  Do they want the police to spend as much time patrolling gated
communities as the ghettos?

I can't believe mathematicians are so stupid.  Wait, I can too.

bill w
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