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 ...

As UK police embrace the AI revolution, a WIRED investigation reveals the messy inside story of one region’s experiment with ...

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 ...

On June 24 and 25, 2024, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (National Academies) held a two-day public workshop exploring law enforcement’s use of person-based and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In an era marked by technological advancements, the thin line between ensuring public safety and invading individual privacy has ...

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 ...

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 ...

The consolidation of data in a common data warehouse such as N-DEx is just the first step in improving nationwide investigations. The next steps involve the use of data mining techniques to predict ...

In an era marked by technological advancements, the thin line between ensuring public safety and invading individual privacy has become increasingly blurred. Nowhere is this more evident than in the ...

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