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The BBC is reporting on the Compas assessment, Correctional Offender Management Profiling for Alternative Sanctions. This tool is used by a number of agencies to assess if someone is likely to commit additional crimes and the resulting score is used in determining bail, sentencing, or determining parole. The article points out that while the questions on the assessment do not include race the resulting score may be correlated with race but this is disputed by the software's creators. The assessment scores someone on a 10 point scale but the algorithm used to determine someone's score is kept secret. Because of this defendants are unable to effectively dispute that the score is incorrect.
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The Mathematics of the American Justice System
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I consider the day misspent that I am not either charged with a crime,
or arrested for one.
-- "Ratsy" Tourbillon
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 18 2016, @05:38PM
You don't understand the labels you are throwing around. Progressive and liberal are not terms that apply to pretty much anyone in government anymore. Those are just labels to make you scared and emotional. We have zero progressives in the higher levels, with basically all "progressive" programs being authoritarian policies dressed up to appear liberal and progressive.
No progressive would ever put forth this system, if we go by the common perception that progressive ideas are more liberal and humanitarian.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 18 2016, @09:33PM
Remember, this is the guy who thinks accusing someone of a "chimp out" shows his own superiority. He's a pretty dim bulb with passable grammar.