The Daily Illini, June 4, 2022, Predictive policing models encode problematic assumptions
According to a report by the advocacy group National Community Reinvestment Coalition, 74% of the neighborhoods the HOLC marked as high-risk or “hazardous” are now low-to-moderate income and nearly 64% are minority neighborhoods. Even with directly identifying information removed from consideration, characteristics like class and race are inextricably linked to geography. While likely unintentional, these factors still become deeply embedded into models anyway.
