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Chicago's 'Predictive Policing' List Isn't Preventing Violence [CityLab.com]

 

Since 2013, Chicago police have been attempting to identify individuals most likely to experience or perpetuate gun violence.

The program, known as the Strategic Subjects List, is supposed to help prevent shootings. But it has raised controversy: Its prediction analysis is based, in part, on identifying people who have been arrested for any crime with anyone who has since become a homicide victim. This selection criterion means that people could be placed on the list even if police have not identified them as currently criminally active.

A new RAND Corporation study has refueled this ongoing public debate, finding that those on the list are no more or less likely to be homicide or shooting victims than the control group that they studied, who were not on the list.

The study also found that those placed on the list were far more likely to be arrested for shootings. This could be, as police told the researchers in interviews, because the list was, in its initial phase, used to identify possible suspects.



[For more of this story, written by George Joseph, go to http://www.citylab.com/crime/2...ing-violence/497303/]

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