Over the last year, HRDAG has deepened the national conversation about homicides by police, predictive policing software, and the role that bail plays in the criminal justice system. Our studies describe how the racial bias inherent in police practice becomes data input to predictive policing tools. In another project, we are shining light on the iniquities of bail decisions.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Kristian Lum (2017). Limitations of mitigating judicial bias with machine learning. Nature. 26 June 2017. © 2017 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. DOI 10.1038/s41562-017-0141.

Laurel Eckhouse (2017). Big data may be reinforcing racial bias in the criminal justice system. Washington Post. 10 February 2017. © 2017 Washington Post.

William Isaac and Kristian Lum (2016). Predictive policing violates more than it protects. USA Today. December 2, 2016. © USA Today.

Kristian Lum and William Isaac (2016). To predict and serve? Significance. October 10, 2016. © 2016 The Royal Statistical Society. [related blogpost]

Patrick Ball (2016). Violence in Blue. Granta, March 2016. © 2016 Granta.

Kristian Lum and Patrick Ball (2015). Estimating Undocumented Homicides with Two Lists and List Dependence. HRDAG, April 2015.

Kristian Lum and Patrick Ball (2015). How many police homicides in the US? A reconsideration. HRDAG, April 2015.

Kristian Lum and Patrick Ball (2015). BJS Report on Arrest-Related Deaths: True Number Likely Much Greater. HRDAG, March 2015.

OTHER RESOURCES

William Isaac presenting predictive policing simulation at Data & Society, April 2016.

Patrick Ball at Data & Society Research Institute, April 2016.

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