UK Police Going Full Minority Report, Building ‘Murder Prediction’ Tool

Latest “We have created Nexus suffering from classic Sci-Fi novel Do not pose Nexus suffering“The news, the guardianship, the United Kingdom government develops a prediction algorithm that will aim to identify people who commit the murder. What can you go wrong?

This reportquotes the documents Transparency Organization has been obtained by the state’s freedom of informationThe Ministry of Justice was instructed to prepare a profiling system that can flag people who are able to commit serious violent crimes before doing so. The so-called criminal forecast project (Distpopy to improve the risk assessment “to prevent dystopics” Distestopia) again “Distestopia) to develop models that can determine” predictors of information for criminal risk. “

The project includes information of the Ministry of Justice (MOJ), home office, the larger Manchester Police (GMP) and Metropolitan Police in London. The notes also cover the information of not limited to criminal records, but not convicted, victims, witnesses and missing suspects. In addition, a person’s mental health, addiction, self-harm, suicide, weakness and disability – “health markers” were “health markers” claimed “to have important predictive power”. Guardian said Government officials rejected the use of the information of victims or sensitive populations, and insisted that only the information of people with at least one criminal confidence.

It is not necessary to see how bad this idea is and probably what the end result will be: the disproportionate target of low-income and marginalized people. However, if this is not open, you should only consider the benefits of the British Ministry of Justice and the benefits of the previous forecasting justice.

For example, the government Criminal evaluation system If a person is likely to be reconstructed, it is used by the “forecasting” legal system, and this forecast is used by judges in decisions. One Government Review Among all criminals, real re-infection, especially for the predicted proportions for non-violent crimes. But as you can imagine, the algorithm assessed black criminals more accurately than white criminals.

Of course not just a UK problem. This predictive police means regularly mislead people Where to apply, regardless of the risks associated with marginalized communities, result Racial biases found in the data History history excessively police More police interactions from the communities of color and low-income communities, which cause higher detention and harder judgments. These results are then cooked to data that further complicated with the algorithmic processing of this information Strengthens behaviors lead to unequal results.

Anyway, as a reminder: We had to cover the predictive essence of recognition Minority sheet-We should doubt them.