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

By Matt Burgess · Wired · June 2026

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"As UK police embrace the AI revolution, a WIRED investigation reveals the messy inside story of one region’s experiment with predictive analytics."

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