Predictive Policing and Risk Scoring
Predictive policing covers two distinct things: place-based forecasting that directs patrols to predicted hotspots, and person-based risk scoring that assigns individuals a likelihood of offending or reoffending. Both have been the subject of sustained academic and practitioner debate over feedback loops, where historic arrest data shapes future deployment and can appear to confirm its own predictions.
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The European Union gains enforcement powers under its landmark AI Act starting on Sunday. The move enables stricter regulation of advanced AI systems. It also allows hefty fines…
Law enforcement agencies, including the Caldwell Police Department in Idaho, are expanding their use of artificial intelligence to write reports, review body camera footage, read…
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a two-day public workshop on 24–25 June 2024 to examine law enforcement's use of person-based and place-based…
A group of seven Democratic members of Congress has issued a public letter demanding that the Justice Department stop granting funds to predictive policing projects unless it can…
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Opposition is growing against the practice of predictive or algorithmic policing, although police in Australia and elsewhere remain reluctant to discuss it. In 1836, Scottish…
Predictive policing programmes in the United States and internationally are experiencing a significant decline in usage following public backlash and issues surrounding…
Recent protests over law enforcement abuses have drawn attention to concerns that artificial intelligence programmes—including facial recognition, predictive policing, and risk…
Santa Cruz, California, has become the first city in the United States to outright ban the use of predictive policing algorithms as law enforcement faces national scrutiny over…
The Santa Cruz City Council in California has unanimously passed an ordinance permanently banning predictive policing and prohibiting the city from using facial recognition…
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Predictive policing software, which uses algorithms to predict where crimes will occur and direct officers to those areas, is used by dozens of police departments across the…
The Los Angeles Police Department has deployed a "predictive policing" programme in Pacoima to prevent crimes including burglary, auto theft, and car break-ins. Under the…