anne milgram worked as the attorney general for the state of new jersey where she worked to bring data to bear on the new jersey state justice system and became a professor at new york university; she was recruited by the foundation to become its vice president for criminal justice. in a 2013 ted talk, she explained her work at ljaf creating tools to capture and use data to make the justice system more effective and efficient, which she called "moneyballing crime". this was not well received. the leadership conference education fund had 120 criminal justice organizations sign a statement pushing for the halt of pretrial risk assessment instruments, stating "although they may seem objective or neutral – threaten to further intensify unwarranted discrepancies in the justice system and to provide a misleading and undeserved imprimatur of impartiality for an institution that desperately needs fundamental change."