San Francisco’s twist on probation: Using algorithm to spot offenders’ risk factors

Barry Krisberg quoted in The Wall Street Journal (requires registration), July 4, 2012

About two-thirds of probation departments in California have begun using COMPAS or similar risk-assessment software, says University of California at Berkeley law professor and criminologist Barry Krisberg. But Ms. Still’s extensive use of that data sets San Francisco apart, since other departments don’t generally take such data into account for probation sentences, says Mr. Krisberg.