Submitted by ADefiniteDescription t3_z1wim3 in philosophy
TheEarlOfCamden t1_ixe22d7 wrote
Reply to comment by Pawn_of_the_Void in The Ethics of Policing Algorithms by ADefiniteDescription
But if you were training such a model you would obviously want to include in its training data how much time police were spending there already, so it ought to be able to distinguish between an area where there are more arrests because there is more crime from one where there are more arrests because there is more police.
Pawn_of_the_Void t1_ixegtrs wrote
Well, the thing here is you just started talking about it being able to tell why there are more arrests in one area than another. That seems like a hell of a lot more complicated than the prior task of just finding the area where they report the most incidents. Time spent alone isn't a sufficient indicator really, is it? Its a factor and something that can skew the data but you can't just directly decide its the cause from the time spent there data being added in
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