When George Floyd was killed in May after a police officer pressed a knee into the man’s neck, millions of Americans protested, demanding civic leaders dismantle long-standing police practices and ...
This article is co-reported with The Markup. Between 2018 and 2021, more than one in 33 U.S. residents were potentially subject to police patrol decisions directed by crime-prediction software called ...
Newly released documents revealed as part of a Stop LAPD Spying Coalition study show the full extent of how both Operation Laser and PredPol reinforced existing racial biases, such as decisions to ...
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 ...
A co-reported investigation with Gizmodo and The Markup into PredPol A co-reported investigation with Gizmodo and The Markup into PredPol PredPol’s algorithm is supposed to make predictions based on ...
Training algorithms on crime reports from victims rather than arrest data is said to make predictive tools less biased. It doesn’t look like it does. It’s no secret that predictive policing tools are ...
SoundThinking, the company behind the gunshot-detection system ShotSpotter, is quietly acquiring staff, patents, and customers of the firm that created the notorious predictive policing software ...
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This article was originally published on The Markup and was republished under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license. When George Floyd was killed in May after a police ...
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