Pasco’s sheriff created a futuristic program to stop crime before it happens. It monitors and harasses families

Families were subjected to around-the-clock visits from deputies, who often arrived without evidence of a crime.

As the Tampa Bay Times reports, this approach can provide algorithmic justification for further police harassment of minority and low-income communities. Using such flawed data to train new systems embeds the police department’s documented misconduct in the algorithm and perpetuates practices already known to be terrorizing those most vulnerable to that abuse...