Tag: Predictive Policing

Technology

POLICE Survey: Law Enforcement and Technology

A dizzying variety of hardware and software tools are now available for police operations. But are they actually being used? We sent a special survey out to law enforcement officers to find out. Here's what we discovered.

October 18, 2019

Patrol

Bernie Sanders Calls for Ban on Police Use of Facial Recognition Software

Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders—the Democrat from Vermont who served as a U.S. Representative for 16 years before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006—has called for a complete ban on the police use of facial recognition.

August 20, 2019

Patrol

Father of "Broken Windows" Policing Dead at Age 83

George Kelling—who along with James Wilson revolutionized American law enforcement with their "broken windows" theory of policing—died in his New Hampshire home on Wednesday. He was 83 years old.

May 16, 2019

Technology

San Francisco Could Ban Use of Facial Recognition by Law Enforcement

The proposal, introduced by San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin, would also require public input and the supervisors’ approval before agencies buy investigative technology with public funds. That includes the purchase of license plate readers, toll readers, closed-circuit cameras, body cams, and biometrics technology and software for forecasting criminal activity.

May 7, 2019

Technology

NYPD Develops AI Analytics Tool for Fighting Crime

Patternizr is an algorithmic machine-learning software that sifts through police data to find patterns and connect similar crimes. It has been in use by NYPD since December 2016, but its existence was first disclosed by the department this month.

April 24, 2019

Technology

LAPD to Dump Program that Uses Data to ID Likely Offenders

Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore plans to scrap a controversial program that uses data to identify individuals who are most likely to commit violent crimes, bowing to criticism included in an audit and by privacy groups.

April 10, 2019

Investigations

Special Report: Investigative Technologies

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Read POLICE Magazine’s Special Report: Investigative Technologies to learn about capturing crime scene images, the investigative role of body cameras, fighting crime with predictive policing, developing leads with investigative imaging tools, the challenge of smartphones, speeding up DNA analysis, and how to preserve a crime scene.

October 22, 2018

Technology

How Intelligence-Led Policing Makes Communities Safer

ILP’s core philosophy: humanizing police, as well as the citizens they protect, is the most effective form of crime prevention.

September 3, 2018

Patrol

Madness Control

There are not enough officers and investigators to scan the Internet and discern what's a viable threat.

July 13, 2018

Patrol

Stop The Falling

If companies can predict consumer behavior with considerable accuracy, is it outside the realm of possibility that the same could be done for criminal behavior?

June 18, 2018

Technology

Chicago Using Los Angeles-Style Predictive Policing Technology to Reduce Murder Rate

The lab’s job: to help build and operate Strategic Decision Support Centers, where officers and civilian analysts monitor gunshot detectors, surveillance cameras and other data to pinpoint where crimes occur and where they might happen next.

February 9, 2018

Patrol

IACP 2017: Best of Show

Here's a look at the products that caught our eye at this year's International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) show held at Philadelphia's Pennsylvania Convention Center.

December 4, 2017