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Allegheny County employs data-driven algorithms to guide criminal justice, law enforcement, and child welfare decisions.

Algorithms make decisions based on historical data: in the case of policing, the system will look at an area’s past crime rates to determine where police may be beneficial.

It’s a truth we can’t escape: human beings have biases, and those biases can seep into computer programs and algorithms based on who is creating them.