Proactive policing as reinforcement learning

Dawson Kinsman, Tian An Wong

Keywords: Predictive policing, reinforcement learning, proactive policing, Hawkes process

TL;DR: Preditive policing models are reinforcement learning models, which also applies to proactive policing, therefore it can be shown they also lead to overpolicing

Abstract: Recent analyses of predictive policing have shown the inherent biases in such systems. We show that the models considered in fact apply to proactive policing in general, which can be also viewed as a reinforcement learning system, and thus may also lead to over-policing.