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 ...

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 ...

As UK police embrace the AI revolution, a WIRED investigation reveals the messy inside story of one region’s experiment with ...

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 ...

This month marks three years since an unarmed black teen named Michael Brown was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo. In 2015 and 2016 — the two years following his death — 548 more black men ...

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 ...

Computer algorithms use data mining to improve people's lives in a number of fields, and crime fighting is one of them. Since 2011, a program dubbed "predictive policing" has been helping law ...

“You are being watched,” proclaims the opening narration to the television series Person of Interest. “The government has a secret system; a machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I ...