Questions on Efficacy and Bias in Pretrial Justice Algorithms Continues with Two More Scholarly Articles.

Questions on Efficacy and Bias in Pretrial Justice Algorithms Continues with Two More Scholarly Articles.
National Survey Data Shows that the Public Disfavors Risk Algorithms in Criminal Justice June 28, 2018 With public policy issues shifting so quickly, policy-makers are often caught in a bit of a pickle when the assumptions upon which many key policies and ideas are based on begin to fall by the ways…
“As we have said, the heart of the bail reform movement is the use of risk algorithms to decide who gets bail and what the bail should be. As the arc of history begins to bend, it might be time for policy-makers to think long and hard about whether spending millions – or even billions – to expand the criminal justice system into an archaic computerized roulette table is worth it – all while victims and justice hang in the balance.”
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