Predictive policing was supposed to transform the way policing was carried out, ushering us into a world of smart law enforcement in which bias was removed and police would be able to respond to the ...
Sarah Brayne, the University of Texas at Austin 1 and planning committee member, began this session with an overview of person-based predictive policing approaches. Person-based predictive policing ...
Seven Democrats are urging Attorney General Merrick Garland to cease grant funding for predictive policing systems until DOJ ensures they are not having “a discriminatory impact.” Emerging Technology ...
Law enforcement in America is facing a day of reckoning over its systemic, institutionalized racism and ongoing brutality against the people it was designed to protect. Virtually every aspect of the ...
In 1836, the Scottish geologist, chemist, and "agricultural improver" Sir George Stewart Mackenzie was concerned about what he called the "recent atrocities" of violent crime in the British penal ...
This article is republished from The Markup. Read the original article, which was copublished with WIRED. Crime predictions generated for the police department in Plainfield, New Jersey, rarely lined ...
Automation can be the key to unlocking efficiency—but what happens when the algorithms at the core of an automated process perpetuate racial and economic biases? A ...
This is Episode 12 of Real Future, Fusion’s documentary series about technology and society. More episodes available at realfuture.tv. There’s a new kind of software that claims to help law ...
In an investigation from Gizmodo and The Markup, reporters found that software tended to disproportionately predict crimes in low-income communities and communities of color. Many law enforcement ...
The question of algorithms outpacing their utility and perpetuating structural violence is no longer a dystopian hypothetical, but rather a terrifying reality of contemporary society. The roots of ...
“Predictive policing” has an enticing ring to it. The idea is that you feed a bunch of data into a mysterious algorithm, and poof, out comes intelligence about the future that tells police where the ...
In an investigation from Gizmodo and The Markup, reporters found that software tended to disproportionately predict crimes in low-income communities and communities of color. Many law enforcement ...