Should data scientists be in the business of fingering Americans for crimes they could commit, someday? Last month, a group of federal lawmakers asked the Department of Justice to stop funding such ...

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 ...

For years, cops have attempted to use data analysis to conduct more efficient investigations. A new study claims that's probably a huge waste of time. Reading time 2 minutes Predictive policing—the ...

The law enforcement breed can be a pretty dark lot. To be paid to think suspiciously leaves its mark, fostering an incentive to identify crimes and misdemeanours with instinctive compulsion.

Several Democratic members of Congress are calling on the Justice Department to stop all grants funding predictive policing systems until the agency can ensure they won’t be used “in ways that have a ...

Predictive policing has been shown to be an ineffective and biased policing tool. Yet, the Department of Justice has been funding the crime surveillance and analysis technology for years—and continues ...

A group of Democratic lawmakers is calling on the Justice Department (DOJ) to pause funding for predictive policing technology unless officials show the tech meets accuracy and effectiveness standards ...

A group of seven Democratic members of Congress has issued a public letter demanding the Justice Department stop issuing grants to fund predictive policing projects, unless the agency “can ensure that ...

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 ...

(TNS) - Artificial intelligence is making inroads to the field of law enforcement. But machine learning has yet to make a big splash at local police departments. "We don't do any predictive policing ...

After making millions with PayPal, Peter Thiel launched a startup focused on counterterrorism and tapped his friend Alex Karp to run it. In an exclusive excerpt from his new biography of Karp, Michael ...