{"id":607,"date":"2020-02-24T11:55:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T19:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=607"},"modified":"2020-02-24T11:55:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T19:55:37","slug":"algorithms-fail-to-make-bail-less-biased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=607","title":{"rendered":"Algorithms Fail to Make Bail Less Biased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A leading argument behind the current movement to limit or eliminate bail is that the traditional cash bail process discriminates against minority arrestees.\u00a0 Tom Simonite of Wired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/algorithms-supposed-fix-bail-system-they-havent\/\">reports<\/a> that to fix this disparity,\u00a0 many jurisdictions are utilizing computer software to peruse nine factors about an arrestee including age,\u00a0 past convictions and current charges.\u00a0 No data on an arrestee&#8217;s race are considered. \u00a0 The Oakland, CA nonprofit\u00a0 MediaJustice found that these algorithms are used in 46 states to guide judicial decisions on bail, sentencing, parole and probation.\u00a0 Law enforcement representatives have been skeptical, noting that using software to decide which arrestees are held in jail or set free removes responsibility from those charged with making those decisions, who should be encouraged to err on the side of caution.\u00a0 The software doesn&#8217;t consider public safety.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But in recent months even the proponents of the algorithms now say they should be abandoned.\u00a0 The Pretrial Justice Institute (PJI), an early proponent, now claims that these tools have not reduced racial disparities, and in some jurisdictions have increased the disparities.\u00a0 New Jersey figures show that while eliminating cash bail and using an algorithm to determine pretrial release reduced the jail population, the racial disparity among those denied release remained the same, with blacks more likely to be held in jail than whites.\u00a0\u00a0 The PJI and other groups that sold these risk assessment tools to the public to create a more colorblind system, are now calling for the abandonment of the tools.\u00a0 The be clear, no process intended to create proportional racial outcomes in bail and sentencing will ever work.\u00a0\u00a0 The members of different racial and ethnic groups do not commit crimes proportionally.\u00a0 Blacks and Hispanics commit more crimes than whites and Japanese.\u00a0 While it is most certainly politically incorrect to say this, any process that ignores this reality is guaranteed to fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leading argument behind the current movement to limit or eliminate bail is that the traditional cash bail process discriminates against minority arrestees.\u00a0 Tom Simonite of Wired reports that to fix this disparity,\u00a0 many jurisdictions are utilizing computer software to peruse nine factors about an arrestee including age,\u00a0 past convictions and current charges.\u00a0 No data on an arrestee&#8217;s race are considered. \u00a0 The Oakland, CA nonprofit\u00a0 MediaJustice found that these algorithms are used in 46 states to guide judicial decisions on bail, sentencing, parole and probation.\u00a0 Law enforcement representatives have been skeptical, noting that using software to decide which arrestees are held in jail or set free removes responsibility from those charged with making those decisions, who should be encouraged to err on the side of caution.\u00a0 The software doesn&#8217;t consider public safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-scan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Algorithms Fail to Make Bail Less Biased - Crime &amp; 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