WIRED Investigation Reveals Flawed Crime-Prediction Database in Bristol

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A WIRED investigation reveals the troubled history of the Think Family Database, a sprawling predictive analytics system launched in 2016 by Bristol City Council and Avon and Somerset Police. The database stored highly sensitive information on nearly half a million people—including police intelligence, mental health records, housing status, teenage pregnancies, and free school meal data—and used machine-learning models to assign risk scores to thousands of adults and children. The investigation found that some of the predictive results could not be trusted, raising serious concerns about the use of AI-driven crime prediction in policing and the lack of transparency and oversight surrounding the system.

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