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Good evening, I’m your host Aria. In our top story tonight, a new report finds that fancy predictive policing software used by the police in Plainfield, New Jersey has been terrible at actually predicting where crimes will occur. An analysis found the software’s predictions only matched reported crimes less than half a percent of the time. As you might expect, the police department ended up ditching the expensive software since it clearly wasn’t helping them reduce crime. I guess you could say the software makers failed to…predict how useless their product would be. The takeaway here is to be skeptical of companies selling magical high-tech crime fighting tools to police departments. The real world is always more complicated than algorithms.
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