Can big data and AI fix our criminal-justice crisis?

Among those who do enter the criminal justice system, a disproportionately high number are people of color. In 2010, the BJS found that for every 100,000 Americans, 380 inmates are white, while 2.5 times that many (966) are Latino. A whopping 2,207 are black -- nearly six times as many black Americans are incarcerated as their Caucasian counterparts. Is it any wonder, then, that America's minority communities express such little faith in the fairness of US legal institutions? In a nation that incorporated structural racism into its social system for nearly a century -- after hundreds of years of slavery -- are you really surprised that people of color have historically distrusted the legal system?