{"id":24472,"date":"2016-11-18T21:28:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T02:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24472"},"modified":"2016-11-18T21:30:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T02:30:11","slug":"wapo-police-are-using-software-to-predict-crime-is-it-a-holy-grail-or-biased-against-minorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24472","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Police are using software to predict crime. Is it a \u2018holy grail\u2019 or biased against minorities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/public-safety\/police-are-using-software-to-predict-crime-is-it-a-holy-grail-or-biased-against-minorities\/2016\/11\/17\/525a6649-0472-440a-aae1-b283aa8e5de8_story.html\">Police are using software to predict crime. Is it a \u2018holy grail\u2019 or biased against minorities?<\/a> by Justin Jouvenal:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Soon, Coleman was back in his SUV on his way to fight the next pre-crime. Dozens of other LAPD officers were doing the same at other spots, guided by the crime prognostication system known as PredPol.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPredictive policing\u201d represents a paradigm shift that is sweeping police departments across the country. Law enforcement agencies are increasingly trying to forecast where and when crime will occur, or who might be a perpetrator or a victim, using software that relies on algorithms, the same math Amazon uses to recommend books.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Now used by 20 of the nation\u2019s 50 largest police forces by one count, the technologies are at the center of an increasingly heated debate about their effectiveness, potential impact on poor and minority communities, and implications for civil liberties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Police are using software to predict crime. Is it a \u2018holy grail\u2019 or biased against minorities? by Justin Jouvenal:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24475,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24472\/revisions\/24475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}