{"id":11544,"date":"2020-07-31T08:14:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T12:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=11544"},"modified":"2020-07-31T08:14:12","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T12:14:12","slug":"why-hundreds-of-mathematicians-are-boycotting-predictive-policing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/why-hundreds-of-mathematicians-are-boycotting-predictive-policing\/11544\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Hundreds of Mathematicians Are Boycotting Predictive Policing"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published in Popular Mechanics, July 28, 2020 Some academics are calling the controversial practice a &#8220;scientific veneer for racism.&#8221; Several prominent academic mathematicians want to sever ties with police departments across the U.S., according to a letter submitted to Notices of the American Mathematical Society on June 15. The letter arrived weeks after widespread protests against police brutality, and has inspired over 1,500 other researchers to join the boycott. These mathematicians are urging fellow researchers to stop all work related to predictive policing software, which broadly includes any data analytics tools that use historical data to help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/why-hundreds-of-mathematicians-are-boycotting-predictive-policing\/11544\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in Popular Mechanics, July 28, 2020 Some academics are calling the controversial practice a &#8220;scientific veneer for racism.&#8221; Several prominent academic mathematicians want to sever ties with police departments across the U.S., according to a letter submitted to Notices of the American Mathematical Society on June 15. The letter arrived weeks after widespread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11545,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11544\/revisions\/11545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}