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The premise of this investigation, and the inequality it uncovered, rests on the reality that America is defined by widespread residential housing segregration
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Aaron Sankin is a reporter at The Markup. He analyzed over five million PredPol predictions to determine which neighborhoods were targeted most frequently by the software. The algorithm, which supposedly tells cops where crime is most likely to strike, only disproportionately target Black neighborhoods because there are Black neighborhoods in the first place.

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