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“Big data policing is racially encoded, colored by the history of real-world policing that disproportionality impacts communities of color. Police data comes from the real world, and all of the long-standing discriminatory impacts of … bias color that data."

Illuminating Black Data Policing Illuminating Black Data Policing In some jurisdictions, race and place are so closely intertwined that policing certain places means a disproportionate impact on communities of color.69 If the crime data collected from particular areas becomes the only data in the system, then police data systems will mirror police patrols, not necessarily actual crime rates. In some jurisdictions, race and place are so closely intertwined that policing certain places means a disproportionate impact on communities of color.69 If the crime data collected from particular areas becomes the only data in the system, then police data systems will mirror police patrols, not necessarily actual crime rates.
Illuminating Black Data Policing
Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law
Ferguson, Andrew G.
Vol. 15 Issue 2, pp. 503–525, 2018
http://hdl.handle.net/1811/85816
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