Assistant Professor Heidi Goodson and her coauthor had their paper titled “Examining the Modeling Framework of Crime Hotspot Models in Predictive Policing” published in the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics in July. The scholars give an example of what goes into mathematical crime hotspot modeling and show that the modeling assumptions perpetuate systemic racism in policing. The goal of the paper is to raise objections to this field of research, not on its mathematical merit, but on the scope of the problem formation.
