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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eight Democratic lawmakers raised concerns about the deployment of algorithms that automate policing decisions, via a letter penned to the Justice Department Thursday, “We ask DOJ to help ensure that ...

A few weeks ago a story broke revealing that the New Orleans Police Department had been using a predictive policing tool supplied by CIA-backed data mining company, Palantir, to identify gang members.

The Justice Department has deployed additional predictive analytics tools from SPSS in an effort to find culprits of crimes nationwide. The Bureau of Justice Statistics, which collects, analyzes and ...

For detailed instructions, see our Slate Plus podcasts page. Predictive-policing technology is spreading across the country, and Los Angeles is the epicenter. A small group of L.A. activists are in a ...