# Why smart statistics are the key to fighting crime

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED@BCG San Francisco
- Speaker: Anne Milgram
- Year: 2013
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Mathematics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/anne_milgram_why_smart_statistics_are_the_key_to_fighting_crime)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

When she became the attorney general of New Jersey in 2007, Anne Milgram quickly discovered a few startling facts: not only did her team not really know who they were putting in jail, but they had no way of understanding if their decisions were actually making the public safer. And so began her ongoing, inspirational quest to bring data analytics and statistical analysis to the US criminal justice system.

## Lectures

1. [Why smart statistics are the key to fighting crime](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/anne_milgram_why_smart_statistics_are_the_key_to_fighting_crime/d798fd893e57), 13 min (TED's player)