The 2002 sci-fi thriller "Minority Report" depicted a dystopian future where a specialized police unit was tasked with arresting people for crimes they had not yet committed. Directed by Steven ...

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 ...

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 ...

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” 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 ...

Data like this seven-day crime map from Oakland, Calif., feeds AI-enabled predictive policing. (City of Oakland via CrimeMapping.com) The 2002 sci-fi thriller “Minority Report” depicted a dystopian ...

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 ...

Data like this seven-day crime map from Oakland, Calif., feeds predictive policing AIs. The 2002 sci-fi thriller “Minority Report” depicted a dystopian future where a specialized police unit was ...

AI-Powered Crime Prediction: Can Machine Learning Help Prevent Local Crime? Public safety has always been one of society’s most urgent priorities. From neighborhood patrols to national security ...

Sarah Brayne, the University of Texas at Austin 1 and planning committee member, began this session with an overview of person-based predictive policing approaches. Person-based predictive policing ...