In 2007, I became the attorney general of the state of New Jersey. 2007年，我担任了新泽西州的司法部长。 Before that, I'd been a criminal prosecutor, first in the Manhattan district attorney's office, 在那之前，我曾是一名刑事检察官，
And all of this matters greatly, because public safety to me is the most important function of government. 所有这些事项都很重要，因为我认为，保证公共安全是政府最重要的职能。 If we're not safe, we can't be educated, we can't be health
The second thing that happened is that I spent the day in the Camden, New Jersey police department. 第二件事是我在卡姆登的新泽西州警察局耗了一天。 Now, at that time, Camden, New Jersey, was the most dangerous city in Americ
In the tool that we've built, what we did was we collected 1.5 million cases from all around the United States, 在这个已经建立的这个工具里，我们收集了150万个案件，来自美国各地， from cities, from counties, from every single state i
Now I want to say something really important. 现在我想说些非常重要的事。 It's not that I think we should be eliminating the judge's instinct and experience from this process. 在整个过程中，我不认为应该排除法官的直觉和经验。 I don't. I ac
The people who we find are the highest-risk offenders, 那些我们抓获的高危险罪犯， the people who we think have the highest likelihood of committing a new crime if they're released, 那些被认为一旦释放会有极高的可能性再次犯罪的人， we see
When I became attorney general, I could look at the system as a whole, 后来我成为司法部长，我可以全面的观察整个司法系统， and what surprised me is that I found that that was exactly how we were doing it across the entire syst
So I decided to focus on using data and analytics to help make the most critical decision in public safety, 所以我决定将重点集中在使用数据和分析以帮助作出最关键的判断在公共安全方面， and that decision is the determination of whether, whe
