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.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Tuesday October 18 2016, @08:52PM
Option 3: Throw away the laws. Throw away the Judges and lawyers. Draft new laws that actually make sense and are executed by random citizens.
Government is full of intelligent, well-educated lawyers and judges that spend their careers ignoring science and common sense for a quick buck and party status & affiliation. I don't trust those wannabe aristocrats to sit on the bench and pass judgment on anything more complex then a traffic violation.
Hang 'em all. Athenian democracy ftw.
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