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99% Invisible had a great episode that touched on this last Fall. Well worth 20 minutes of your time: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-age-of-the-algori...

And Cathy O’Neil's book Weapons of Math Destruction, mentioned in the episode, is also well worth reading.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0141985410

Lest we forget:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

Allowing environments where violent criminals and murderers are allowed to thrive IS institutional racism

And giving officers the ability to claim anyone fits within that tiny subset of the population based on spurious correlations is institutional racism.

Protect the innocent, or sacrifice them for the good of catching some baddies?