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When predictive policing algorithms reshape your community

My neighborhood's crime prediction app labeled my street high-risk and now property values are dropping and police patrol constantly.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Mathematical models claiming to predict the future are creating the very realities they claim to merely observe.

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