Sonia Moran has been pleasantly surprised by the increased police patrols in her Pacoima neighborhood lately. She may be noticing the results of a new approach at preventative law enforcement ...being ...

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 ...

Predictive policing aimed to identify crime hot spots and 'chronic' offenders but missed the mark. Patrick T. Fallon for The Washington Post via Getty Images Predictive policing has been shown to be ...

“Predictive policing” has an enticing ring to it. The idea is that you feed a bunch of data into a mysterious algorithm, and poof, out comes intelligence about the future that tells police where the ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Maria Lungu, University of Virginia (THE CONVERSATION) The 2002 sci-fi thriller ...

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 ...

Two armed men stormed the Sunglass Hut on West Gray two years ago, threatened employees with a gun and stole thousands of dollars in cash and merchandise. The Houston Police Department got to work ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will convene a planning committee to conduct a two-day public workshop on law enforcement use of predictive policing strategies. The ...

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 ...