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 chapter delves into considerations for the implementation of both person-based and place-based predictive policing technologies. While these approaches differ in their specific focus, many of the ...

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 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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The European Union (EU) should place an outright ban on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and automated systems to “predict” criminal behaviour, says a non-governmental organisation (NGO) ...

Andrew Ferguson, American University Washington College of Law and planning committee member, provided the opening presentation for a session focused on theoretical underpinnings, examples of use, and ...