sklearn LogisticRegression and changing the default threshold for classification

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from sklearn.datasets import make_classification
from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression
from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score, confusion_matrix, recall_score, roc_auc_score, precision_score
import numpy as np

X, y = make_classification(
    n_classes=2, class_sep=1.5, weights=[0.9, 0.1],
    n_features=20, n_samples=1000, random_state=10
)

X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X, y, test_size=0.33, random_state=42)

clf = LogisticRegression(class_weight="balanced")
clf.fit(X_train, y_train)
THRESHOLD = 0.25
preds = np.where(clf.predict_proba(X_test)[:,1] > THRESHOLD, 1, 0)

pd.DataFrame(data=[accuracy_score(y_test, preds), recall_score(y_test, preds),
                   precision_score(y_test, preds), roc_auc_score(y_test, preds)], 
             index=["accuracy", "recall", "precision", "roc_auc_score"])

By changing the THRESHOLD to 0.25, one can find that recall and precision scores are decreasing.
However, by removing the class_weight argument, the accuracy increases but the recall score falls down.
Refer to the @accepted answer

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