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British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted

ID: 570c5d82-e593-5723-8a48-7f53c2e93f72

STIX ID: report--570c5d82-e593-5723-8a48-7f53c2e93f72

Feed Name: WIRED Security

Date Published: 2026-06-25

Date Updated: 2026-06-25

Author: Matt Burgess, Mark Wilding

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A WIRED article describes an Eticas audit of Avon and Somerset Police’s predictive risk models (2017–2024), finding poor precision for many models, unstable performance metrics, inadequate bias testing, and weak governance/ethics oversight; the force says some models were not deployed and that reviews occur but records show limited ethical scrutiny.

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