Crime statistics historically constructed Blackness as criminal

Evidence

Muhammad traces how nineteenth- and twentieth-century crime statistics constructed Blackness as criminal. For AI-equity readers working on predictive policing, The Condemnation of Blackness provides essential historical context. — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 2727

Categorization

• XREF: Directly grounds the data-bias critique of predictive policing at 2675 — that biased data produces biased predictions. — connects to: Modern surveillance is structured by anti-Blackness — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 2569; Blackness itself is criminalized as a threat irrespective of acts; Racialized surveillance drives black hyperincarceration despite equal crime rates — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 95 (+6 more)

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• Racialized surveillance drives black hyperincarceration despite equal crime rates (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Blackness itself is criminalized as a threat irrespective of acts #corroborates (0.85)
• Racialized surveillance drives black hyperincarceration despite equal crime rates #corroborates (0.70) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 95
• Prior biased policing leaks into race-neutral variables like conviction history #corroborates (0.65) — Brian Christian, The Alignment Problem, 296
• Blackness symbolizes Evil and Ugliness in white thought #complicates (0.50)