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If your response to a set of data showing areas where arrests have occurred in the past is to police those areas more, there is no doubt that in the future there will be more arrests in those same areas.

>>pessim+(OP)
Exactly. Biases in previous data will be amplified with predictive policing algorithms. See, for example, https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1740-...