predictive policing
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U.S. Justice Department Admits: We Don’t Even Know How Many Predictive Policing Tools We’ve Funded
Several of the nation’s largest cities use federal tax dollars to fund the development of software promising to predict the locations of future crimes. They’ve done so for the better part of a decade. For the first time, though, the agency overseeing the distribution of that money has formally acknowledged it has little idea of…
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Data-Informed Predictive Policing Was Heralded as Less Biased. Is It?
This article was originally published on The Markup and was republished under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence.
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Researchers Want To Use AI To ‘Predict’ When Crimes Are Gang-Related
Researchers are using predictive artificial intelligence to help police officers classify crimes and determine whether they are gang-related.