How We Determined Predictive Policing Software Disproportionately Targeted Low-Income, Black, and Latino Neighborhoods
[…] One of the first, and reportedly most widely used, is PredPol, its name an amalgamation of the words “predictive policing.” The software was derived from an algorithm used to predict earthquake aftershocks that was developed by professors at UCLA and released in 2011. By sending officers to patrol these algorithmically predicted hot spots, these Read more about How We Determined Predictive Policing Software Disproportionately Targeted Low-Income, Black, and Latino Neighborhoods[…]