Idiocracie 2.0
Sciences dessus dessous,
Un Américain «moyen», mais vraiment tout ce qu’il y a de plus moyen, participe à une expérience de l’armée pour tester une méthod…
Un Américain «moyen», mais vraiment tout ce qu’il y a de plus moyen, participe à une expérience de l’armée pour tester une méthod…
The Chicago Police Department's predictive policing program didn't work. To achieve even a 5 percent drop in the city's…
Predictive policing — the use of computer models to identify areas or people at greater risk of being involved in a serious…
A Minority Report world where police stop crime before it starts might sound ideal, but police are already using algorithms to…
Since 2013, Chicago police have been attempting to identify individuals most likely to experience or perpetuate gun violence.
The U.S. will phase out private prisons, a move made possible by fewer and shorter sentences for drug offenses, reports the BBC.
If the idea of cops using data to predict who’s going to be involved in crime makes you wince, that’s understandable; after all…
In Chicago, the "Heat List" system is used to direct policing resources, based on data-mining of social media to identify…
A few months ago I publicly pined for a more scientific audit of the Chicago Police Department’s “Heat List” system. The…