I think the notion of, in this case, a predictive algorithm, is flawed because of what should be an obvious bias AGAINST people of color and FOR white perpetrators. Is this regard, the flawed thinking may not amount to racism, but, as my attorney friends would point out: it gives the appearance of doing so, which is to say, the outcome is virtually the same. It further reminds me of a Gestalt puzzle: the so-called duck-rabbit. When you look at the picture, it alternates between presenting itself as a duck, or as a rabbit. Which is to say things are not always as they seem. Now, the illusion can be largely diminished by increasing the size of the eye in the picture, so that the rabbit aspect is dominant. But this too, is illusion is one respect. I am amazed by the lengths to which people may go to level a playing field or make some part of a system more equitable, when in the end game, they only manage to reinforce the unfairness that they have wished to undo. Fascinating, don't you think?