Cate Dingley

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Predicting The Worst

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Call screener Bruce Noel at his...;amp; Families, April 11, 2017.

Call screener Bruce Noel at his desk in the call screening room at the Allegheny Department of Children Youth & Families, April 11, 2017.

Call screener Kathleene Callico...;amp; Families, April 11, 2017.

Call screener Kathleene Callicott at her desk in the call screening room at the Allegheny Department of Children Youth & Families, April 11, 2017.

Reception at the Mon-Valley reg...Youth Services, April 11, 2017.

Reception at the Mon-Valley regional office of Allegheny County Children and Youth Services, April 11, 2017.

Case worker Kelly Smithson make...to this family. April 10, 2017.

Case worker Kelly Smithson makes a house call; it is her second visit to this family. April 10, 2017.

Case worker Chevell White in Mc...rks is located. April 11, 2017.

Case worker Chevell White in McKeesport, where the Mon-Valley Regional office where she works is located. April 11, 2017.

Case worker Chevell White visit...try moved away. April 11, 2017.

Case worker Chevell White visits a family in McKeesport, a city in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area that once enjoyed prosperity but became economically depressed when the steel industry moved away. April 11, 2017.

Case worker for Community Engag...oung son drugs. April 10, 2017.

Case worker for Community Engagement Cheryl Stanko drives to the Hazelwood neighborhood of Pittsburgh with the case file on her lap, for an unannounced visit with a mother who is allegedly giving her young son drugs. April 10, 2017.

Case worker for Community Engag...abusive mother. April 10, 2017.

Case worker for Community Engagement Cheryl Stanko leaves a house in Hazelwood after an attempted visit with an allegedly abusive mother. April 10, 2017.

While conducting an interview, ...rm. Pittsburgh, April 11, 2017.

While conducting an interview, case worker Elice Royster touches the cast of a nine-year-old boy who alleges that his father threw him against a wall and broke his arm. Pittsburgh, April 11, 2017.

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Predicting The Worst

Copyright Cate Dingley 2024

Date of Work Apr 2017 - Apr 2017

Updated Aug 2018

Location pittsburgh

Topics Abuse, algorithm, analytics, Children, Crime, data, Documentary, Domestic Violence, Editorial, Family, Parenting & Family, Photography, Photojournalism, Portraiture, Technology

Predicting The Worst

Commissioned by the New York Times Magazine

Can an algorithm tell when kids are in danger? Child protective agencies are haunted when they fail to save kids. Pittsburgh officials believe a new data analysis program is helping them make better judgment calls.

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