WATCH: UNC Students Pitch Legal Stats, Making Sense of Crime and Court Data
Say you’re accused of a legal offense and you have to make the decision to fight it or plead guilty and hope for the best. Besides the advice of lawyers, there’s little hard data out there to help you make the decision. But Legal Stats is out to reverse that assumption. A team of UNC students found that data (at least in North Carolina) and is determined to make it usable. The plan for Legal Stats is to develop an algorithm that factors your offense, the arresting officer, race, age, neighborhood and the judge’s record to determine the likely...
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