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Matthew Valasik
Researcher at Louisiana State University
Publications - 43
Citations - 736
Matthew Valasik is an academic researcher from Louisiana State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: White (horse) & Predictive policing. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 38 publications receiving 581 citations. Previous affiliations of Matthew Valasik include University of California, Irvine.
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Does Predictive Policing Lead to Biased Arrests? Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial
TL;DR: Racial bias in predictive policing algorithms has been the focus of a number of recent news articles, statements of concern by several national organizations (e.g., the ACLU and NAACP), and simulat...
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Community Detection Using Spectral Clustering on Sparse Geosocial Data
Yves van Gennip,Blake Hunter,Raymond Ahn,Peter Elliott,Kyle Luh,Megan Halvorson,Shannon E. Reid,Matthew Valasik,James C. Wo,George E. Tita,Andrea L. Bertozzi,P. Jeffrey Brantingham +11 more
TL;DR: This article identifies social communities among gang members in the Hollenbeck policing district in Los Angeles, based on sparse observations of a combination of social interactions and geographic locations of the individuals.
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Policing the progressive city: The racialized geography of drug law enforcement
TL;DR: In this paper, a post-print copy of the final version of the paper is published. But the paper was published before the publication of this paper, which can be accessed at DOI: 10.1177/1362480613476986.
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Community detection using spectral clustering on sparse geosocial data
Yves van Gennip,Blake Hunter,Raymond Ahn,Peter Elliott,Kyle Luh,Megan Halvorson,Shannon E. Reid,Matthew Valasik,James C. Wo,George E. Tita,Andrea L. Bertozzi,P. Jeffrey Brantingham +11 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify social communities among gang members in the Hollenbeck policing district in Los Angeles, based on sparse observations of a combination of social interactions and geographic locations of the individuals.
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Adaptation of an ecological territorial model to street gang spatial patterns in Los Angeles
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors modify this ecological approach to simulate spatial gang dynamics in the Hollenbeck policing division of eastern Los Angeles, incorporating important geographical features from the region that would inhibit movement, such as rivers and freeways.