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After Uncle Sam Segregated America, Here’s How Everyday People Desegregate It
This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/after-uncle-sam-segregated-america-heres-how-everyday-people-desegregate-it.
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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By HackerNoonThis story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/after-uncle-sam-segregated-america-heres-how-everyday-people-desegregate-it.
The premise of this investigation, and the inequality it uncovered, rests on the reality that America is defined by widespread residential housing segregration
Check more stories related to society at: https://hackernoon.com/c/society.
You can also check exclusive content about #systemic-racism, #real-estate-segregation, #predictive-policing, #racist-algorithms, #the-markup, #hackernoon-top-story, #richard-rothstein-interview, #segregrated-america, and more.
This story was written by: @TheMarkup. Learn more about this writer by checking @TheMarkup's about page,
and for more stories, please visit hackernoon.com.
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.