The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), has purchased additional SPSS predictive analytics software to analyze and produce reports on key crime ...

Kade Crockford, ACLU of Massachusetts: Predictive policing is built off of historical crime data. And who have police targeted for enforcement on issues like drugs? Inputting that historically biased ...

Several of the nation’s largest cities rely on federal tax dollars to fund the development of software promising to predict future crime. So it’s been for nearly a decade. For the first time, however, ...

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 ...

Around the world, algorithms are increasingly being asked to do something once reserved for human judgment: help decide who should remain free and who should be deprived of liberty. In recent years, ...

The United States Department of Justice has failed to convince a group of US lawmakers that state and local police agencies aren't awarded federal grants to buy AI-based “policing” tools known to be ...

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 ...