New York City spent five years and $2.7 million to develop a point system that helps judges determine who goes to jail and who remains free while awaiting criminal trials, helping reduce racial disparities
BROOKLYN, N.Y.—After Yunio Morla was charged with assaulting and choking his ex-girlfriend, a Brooklyn prosecutor asked a judge to hold him on $15,000 bail. His record included a 2007 felony conviction involving the same woman.
The defense attorney pointed to a sheet on the judge’s bench that held a potential key to his client’s freedom: the result of a new algorithm that had crunched Mr. Morla’s data and scored the likelihood the 41-year-old contractor would appear at his future court dates. His score was 25 out of 25. “You have some scientific evidence that people in similar situations would make it to all their court dates,” Mr. Morla’s lawyer said at the November arraignment.The algorithm is at the center of a real-world experiment New York City began late last year to help decide who stays in jail before a criminal trial and who goes free. The tool, the result of a $2.
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