{"id":18453,"date":"2025-04-10T17:39:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T15:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/10\/predictive-policing-has-prejudice-built-in-letters\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T17:39:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T15:39:24","slug":"predictive-policing-has-prejudice-built-in-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/10\/predictive-policing-has-prejudice-built-in-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Predictive policing has prejudice built in | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ilyas Nagdee<\/strong> of Amnesty International and others respond to government plans to use personal data to identify people most likely to become killers<\/p>\n

Re your article (\u2018Dystopian\u2019 tool aims to predict murder, 9 April<\/a>), the collection and automation of data has repeatedly led to the targeting of racialised and low-income communities, and must come to an end. This has been found by both Amnesty International in our Automated Racism<\/a> report and by Statewatch in its findings<\/a> on the \u201cmurder prediction\u201d tool.<\/p>\n

For many years, successive governments have invested in data-driven and data-based systems, stating they will increase public safety \u2013 yet individual police forces and Home Office evaluations have found no compelling evidence that these systems have had any impact on reducing crime.<\/p>\n

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\nIlyas Nagdee of Amnesty International and others respond to government plans to use personal data to identify people most likely to become killers
\nRe your article (\u2018Dystopian\u2019 tool aims to predict murder, 9 April), the collection and automation of data has repeatedly led to the targeting of racialised and low-income communities, and must come to an end. This has been found by both Amnesty International in our Automated Racism report and by Statewatch in its findings on the \u201cmurder prediction\u201d tool.
\nFor many years, successive governments have invested in data-driven and data-based systems, stating they will increase public safety \u2013 yet individual police forces and Home Office evaluations have found no compelling evidence that these systems have had any impact on reducing crime. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ilyas Nagdee of Amnesty International and others respond to government plans to use personal data to identify people most likely to become killers Re your article (\u2018Dystopian\u2019 tool aims to predict murder, 9 April), the collection and automation of data has repeatedly led to the targeting of racialised and low-income communities, and must come to …<\/p>\n

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