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    Editorial: The problem with LAPD's predictive policing

    by Los Angeles Times Mar 19, 2019 3 minutes

    The Los Angeles Police Department embraced predictive policing in 2015, but it has taken until now for the department's assortment of once-shadowy data-based operations to be thoroughly vetted in public.

    In the end, that's the essential problem to be solved - the lack of transparency and public accountability in deploying crime-targeting tools that could so easily be misused to oppress rather than protect neighborhoods already struggling with both crime and heavy-handed policing. It took years of work by activists to bring programs like

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