{"id":2068,"date":"2014-01-29T08:09:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T12:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/?p=2068"},"modified":"2014-03-24T10:51:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T15:21:57","slug":"moneyballing-criminal-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/moneyballing-criminal-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Moneyballing criminal justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZJNESMhIxQ0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>One of the problems of justice systems everywhere is that they depend on subjectivity and have near zero data-mining expertise. Because of that, tons of money are wasted in keeping low-risk offenders in jail.<\/p>\n<p>As the attorney general for New Jersey, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anne_Milgram\" target=\"_blank\">Anne Milgram<\/a> changed the panorama of her state&#8217;s criminal justice system. By applying statistics to create projections, she devised a dashboard to single out the worst offenders and make sure that they were prosecuted. By applying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0393324818\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0393324818&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=text-media-20\" target=\"_blank\">Moneyball<\/a> concepts, her methods minimized subjetive decisions, lowered costs and optimized the justice system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the problems of justice systems everywhere is that they depend on subjectivity and have near zero data-mining expertise. Because of that, tons of money are wasted in keeping low-risk offenders in jail. As the attorney general for New Jersey, Anne Milgram changed the panorama of her state&#8217;s criminal justice system. By applying statistics&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/moneyballing-criminal-justice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Moneyballing criminal justice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[173],"tags":[219,197],"class_list":["post-2068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-big-data-en","tag-visualization","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tlzy-xm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1846,"url":"https:\/\/www.danielpradilla.info\/blog\/post-capitalist\/","url_meta":{"origin":2068,"position":0},"title":"Post-Capitalist Society","author":"Daniel Pradilla","date":"23\/12\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Fifteen years ago, Peter Drucker's Post-Capitalist Society (1993)\u00a0changed my life forever. 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