Criminal justice algorithms: Being race-neutral doesn’t mean race-blind

A cornerstone of the First Step Act, passed with bipartisan support, is the PATTERN risk-assessment tool.

Jeremy Davis, Postdoctoral Associate, University of Florida • conversation
March 31, 2022 • ~10 min

Forget the debate over public health versus jobs – the same people suffer the most either way

Most pandemic policies have benefited those already best off in US society and ignored people for whom neither mass shutdowns nor reopening offer relief.

Kate Duchowny, Postdoctoral Scholar in Epidemiology, University of California, San Francisco • conversation
April 19, 2021 • ~7 min

High-tech surveillance amplifies police bias and overreach

Police forces across the country now have access to surveillance technologies that were recently available only to national intelligence services. The digitization of bias and abuse of power followed.

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, Professor of Law, American University • conversation
June 12, 2020 • ~9 min

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