At least 14 UK police forces, including the Metropolitan Police and Greater Manchester Police, have used or intend to use computer programs to predict where crime will be committed and by whom, ...

This article is republished from The Markup. Read the original article, which was copublished with WIRED. Crime predictions generated for the police department in Plainfield, New Jersey, rarely lined ...

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Philadelphia Police will soon become the first major U.S. city law enforcement agency to use the crime prediction software that local firm Azavea has been developing for the last three years. Called ...

Can you predict a crime? More than a half-century ago, science fiction writer Philip K. Dick imagined a world in which a “precrime” agency made that possible. Today, a handful of tools promise to help ...

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This article was copublished with The Markup, a nonprofit, investigative newsroom that challenges technology to serve the public good. Sign up for its newsletters here. Crime predictions generated for ...