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  "record": {
    "id": "706aef05-d64c-487c-916a-996f70a25bc6",
    "code": "PAI-706AEF05",
    "force": "Los Angeles Police Department",
    "country": "United States",
    "country_code": "us",
    "is_country": true,
    "region": "California and multiple US jurisdictions",
    "technology": "Place-Based Predictive Policing",
    "technology_slug": "place-based-predictive-policing",
    "vendor": "PredPol, renamed Geolitica in 2021",
    "vendor_slug": "",
    "programme": "",
    "status": "discontinued",
    "stage": "withdrawn",
    "evidence": "regulator",
    "evidence_is_claim": false,
    "since": "2011",
    "legal_basis": "Municipal contracting; no dedicated statute",
    "oversight": "LAPD Office of the Inspector General reviewed the deployment",
    "notes": "The LAPD was the earliest adopter and co-developer, dropping the system in 2020 citing budget, after an inspector general report found it unclear whether the software affected crime trends. Geolitica has since ceased operations, with SoundThinking acquiring specific intellectual property and hiring the engineering team. A Gizmodo and Markup analysis of millions of predictions found on an unsecured server reported the software disproportionately and often relentlessly targeted low-income communities of colour.\n\nUpdate, November 2026. The LAPD Office of the Inspector General's review of 12 March 2019 describes PredPol as a location-based tool used for vehicle theft and burglary or theft from a vehicle, marking 500-square-foot hotspots to which officers are sent as \"missions\", with no information about individuals. The Inspector General said it was \"difficult to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of the system in reducing vehicle or other crime\", and found discrepancies between the dosage figures held in Palantir and on the PredPol site. The department announced in April 2020 that it would let its nine-year agreement expire; Chief Michel Moore cited cost projections of hundreds of thousands of dollars and said the money was better directed to \"other more central activities\"; civil liberties campaigners disputed this, and Hamid Khan of the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition credited community organising.",
    "source": "LAPD Office of the Inspector General, review of data-driven policing strategies, 12 March 2019; The Next Web, 22 April 2020",
    "source_url": "https://www.oig.lacity.org/_files/ugd/b2dd23_21f6fe20f1b84c179abf440d4c049219.pdf",
    "last_checked": "2026-11-04",
    "record_url": "https://www.policeainews.com/tracker/record/706aef05-d64c-487c-916a-996f70a25bc6"
  },
  "licence": "https://www.policeainews.com/data#licence"
}