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Characterizing patterns in police stops by race in Minneapolis from 2016-2021
Tuviere Onookome-Okome, Jonah Gorondensky, Eric Rose +3
The murder of George Floyd centered Minneapolis, Minnesota, in conversations on racial injustice in the US. We leverage open data from the Minneapolis Police Department to analyze…
Closer than they appear: A Bayesian perspective on individual-level heterogeneity in risk assessment
Kristian Lum, David B. Dunson, James Johndrow
Risk assessment instruments are used across the criminal justice system to estimate the probability of some future behavior given covariates. The estimated probabilities are then u…
Estimating the number of SARS-CoV-2 infections and the impact of social distancing in the United States
James Johndrow, Kristian Lum, Maria Gargiulo +1
Understanding the number of individuals who have been infected with the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, and the extent to which social distancing policies have been effective at limi…
The impact of overbooking on a pre-trial risk assessment tool
Kristian Lum, Chesa Boudin, Megan Price
Pre-trial risk assessment tools are used to make recommendations to judges about appropriate conditions of pre-trial supervision for people who have been arrested. Increasingly, th…
Removing the influence of a group variable in high-dimensional predictive modelling
Emanuele Aliverti, Kristian Lum, James E. Johndrow +1
In many application areas, predictive models are used to support or make important decisions. There is increasing awareness that these models may contain spurious or otherwise unde…
The causal impact of bail on case outcomes for indigent defendants
Kristian Lum, Mike Baiocchi
We use near-far matching, a technique for estimating causal relationships, to explore whether bail causes a higher likelihood of conviction. We find evidence of a strong causal imp…
An algorithm for removing sensitive information: application to race-independent recidivism prediction
James E. Johndrow, Kristian Lum
Predictive modeling is increasingly being employed to assist human decision-makers. One purported advantage of replacing or augmenting human judgment with computer models in high s…
An agent-based epidemiological model of incarceration
Kristian Lum, Samarth Swarup, Stephen Eubank +1
We build an agent-based model of incarceration based on the SIS model of infectious disease propagation. Our central hypothesis is that the observed racial disparities in incarcera…