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Supporters of predictive policing argue that past reports can help a city deploy officers more efficiently. They describe the resulting maps as a neutral guide to where crime is most likely. Yet reported crime is not a simple record of every offence committed: it also reflects where officers have previously looked and which residents have felt able to make a complaint. Sending more officers to places with more recorded incidents may therefore generate additional reports from those same places. This possibility does not make past records useless. It means that an evaluation must distinguish better detection from a self-reinforcing pattern of observation before treating a growing total as evidence of growing underlying crime.

Supporters of predictive policing argue that past reports can help a city deploy officers more efficiently. They describe the resulting maps as a neutral guide to where crime is most likely. Yet reported crime is not a simple record of every offence committed: it also reflects where officers have previously looked and which residents have felt able to make a complaint. Sending more officers to places with more recorded incidents may therefore generate additional reports from those same places. This possibility does not make past records useless. It means that an evaluation must distinguish better detection from a self-reinforcing pattern of observation before treating a growing total as evidence of growing underlying crime.

One reviewer praises a new translation for replacing unfamiliar cultural references with local equivalents. Readers, she argues, should encounter the story without repeatedly consulting notes. The translator's afterword, however, explains that some unfamiliar references were retained because replacing them would alter the characters' social relationships. The aim was not to preserve foreignness for its own sake, but to avoid making the fictional world resemble the reader's world in ways the original did not support. The reviewer and translator agree that a readable text matters; they differ over which losses may reasonably be accepted in securing it.

One reviewer praises a new translation for replacing unfamiliar cultural references with local equivalents. Readers, she argues, should encounter the story without repeatedly consulting notes. The translator's afterword, however, explains that some unfamiliar references were retained because replacing them would alter the characters' social relationships. The aim was not to preserve foreignness for its own sake, but to avoid making the fictional world resemble the reader's world in ways the original did not support. The reviewer and translator agree that a readable text matters; they differ over which losses may reasonably be accepted in securing it.