Being able to predict where the next crime is likely to be committed might not put more people behind bars, but Hagerstown Police Chief Mark Holtzman said that is not the primary reason the department ...
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 ...
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(TNS) — Three years ago, Milpitas Police Department had hopes of employing a new crime-fighting technology that bordered on something one might see in a science fiction movie. But about a year after ...
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 analytic software PredPol anticipates future crime based upon past activity. The program was adapted from similar software meant to predict earthquake aftershocks. Many police stations ...
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 ...
(TNS) — Three years ago, Milpitas Police Department had hopes of employing a new crime-fighting technology that bordered on something one might see in a science fiction movie. But about a year after ...