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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Los Angeles Police Department is dumping a controversial predictive policing program that forecasts where property crimes will happen. The PredPol system has been accused of magnifying racial bias ...
Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Democrats in both chambers of Congress are calling for the Department of Justice to halt grant funding for predictive policing systems ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In an era marked by technological advancements, the thin line between ensuring public safety and invading individual privacy has become increasingly blurred. Nowhere is this more evident than in 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 ...
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