From Los Angeles to New York, there is a quiet revolution underway within police departments across the country. Just as major tech companies and political campaigns have leveraged data to target ...

But does predictive policing actually work? One study —touted seemingly every time a police department decides to contract with PredPol — shows that PredPol’s software can lead to a 7.4 percent ...

As images of Ferguson, Missouri’s AR-15 totting police force made their way across the Internet this week, an ever-concerned public began to wonder who decided to give cops in an American city the ...

Police departments in major American cities are trying to prevent violent crime with the help of an unlikely ally: data mining. In recent years, law enforcement agencies have been experimenting with ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Police departments in major US cities have been trying to forestall violent crime by mining data and ...

Retailers have mastered the art of predicting what their customers are likely to buy. Now police departments across the country are using their own predictive strategies such as algorithms, time/space ...

In The Minority Report, novelist Philip K. Dick spun a fanciful tale (later turned into a movie by Steven Spielberg) of a futuristic society practically devoid of crime. With the help of seers (known ...

Late last month, a Manhattan judge ordered the New York City Police Department to release documentation about the department’s use of secretive and highly controversial “predictive policing” ...