British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted (opens original article in a new tab)

British police in Bristol developed a predictive analytics program using a database of 500,000 people, but some models were discarded due to unreliable results and concerns over transparency and bias.

• British police in Bristol created a database with data on 500,000 people for predictive analytics.
• Some risk-scoring models were abandoned due to lack of trust in their accuracy.
• Police faced criticism for lack of transparency and potential bias in data usage.