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The algorithm was likely to indicate black defendants as «future criminals» at almost twice the rate as white defendants.
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This was meant to prevent situations like the one created by COMPAS, which made wrong predictions about black and white defendants at different rates.
Although the COMPAS model was better than chance, it predicted recidivism in black defendants more commonly than for white defendants when it in fact had not occurred.
That makes instances where, for example, they're used to determine recidivism rates — and black defendants are «falsely labeled future criminals at almost twice the rate of white defendants» with a 40 % chance of being wrong — more than a little unsettling.
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.
547, 427 N.E. 2d 754 (1981)(under State Constitution, trial judge properly rejected white defendant's attempted peremptory challenge of black prospective juror).
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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.
«Furthermore, although the average sentence lengths (conditional on case, defendant and judge attributes) do not differ by defendant race in the absence of a football effect, it appears that an upset LSU football game loss increases the disposition length (sentence severity) of black defendants more severely in comparison to white defendants.
It would provide a critical review of the nation's longtime «war on drugs» and the incarceration of minorities at a higher rate than white defendants.
Dressel's study found that people were just as likely as COMPAS to overstate re-arrest risks for black defendants and understate risks for white defendants — they incorrectly flagged black defendants as high risk 37.1 % of the time (compared to 40.4 %) and white defendants as low risk 40.3 % of the time (compared to 47.9 %).
White defendants were mislabeled as low risk more often than black defendants.»
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Others suspected African - American defendants were being unfairly sentenced to steeper prison terms than white defendants.
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