Sentences with phrase «flag black defendants»

In fact, a ProPublica report found that the tool «was particularly likely to falsely flag black defendants as future criminals, wrongly labeling them this way at almost twice the rate as white defendants.

Other issues: COMPAS was twice as likely to flag black defendants as reoffenders, and it mislabeled as low risk white defendants who went on to commit additional crimes more often.

Not exact matches

Among defendants who didn't go on to commit more crimes, blacks were flagged by COMPAS as future criminals more often than whites.