Do US campus ‘crime labs’ hurt the communities they seek to help?

Many (esp. also at the police) tend to ignore that statistics / likelyhoods can just outline correlations. In policing this may even become trivial, i.e., more criminal offences in less income districts. Thus "predictive policing" usually delivers what every experienced officer already shoud know. I.e., a certain street or bar is dangerous, etc. However, police is not the organisation to exert " ... more holistic and peaceful solutions to the inequities ..." but instead to suppress unwanted consequences of such inequities. That is their job, they are neither qualified as social workers nor (hopefully) allowed to bend the laws that they should protect. Accordingly, academic partnerships, etc. should better connect with administrative not executive units. Poiice should play according to the rules the get from politics - a scary thought (esp. in US) - but that's democratic system. Also, it might be wise to assure that such initiatives are not just a way to exploit the state and (usually underfounded) police to gain support for academic institutes looking for naive sponsors.