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Crime Prediction Software Is Here and It's a Very Bad Idea- FL Dept of Juvenile Justice will use software to predict crime by youth involved in the juv. justice system

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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Crime Prediction Software Is Here and It's a Very Bad Idea Gizmodo Crime Prediction Software Is Here and It's a Very Bad IdeaThere are no naked pre-cogs inside glowing jacuzzis yet, but the Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice will use analysis software to predict crime by young delinquents, putting potential offenders under specific prevention and education programs. Goodbye, human rights! They will use this software on juvenile delinquents, using a series of variables to determine the potential for these people to commit another crime. Depending on this probability, they will put them under specific re-education programs. Deepak Advani?vice president of predictive analytics at IBM?says the system gives "reliable projections" so governments can take "action in real time" to "prevent criminal activities?" Really? "Reliable projections"? "Action in real time"? "Preventing criminal activities"? I don't know about how reliable your system is, IBM, but have you ever heard of the 5th, the 6th, and the 14th Amendments to the United States Constitution? What about article 11 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? No? Let's make this easy then: Didn't you watch that scientology nutcase in Minority Report? Sure...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 21, 2010 (boomark / email).