In a new book, a sociologist who spent months embedded with the LAPD details how data-driven policing techwashes bias.
Does Predictive Policing Lead to Biased Arrests? Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial
Racial bias in predictive policing algorithms has been the focus of a number of recent news articles, statements of concern by several national organizations (e.g., the ACLU and NAACP), and simulat...
Does Predictive Policing Lead to Biased Arrests? Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial
Racial bias in predictive policing algorithms has been the focus of a number of recent news articles, statements of concern by several national organizations (e.g., the ACLU and NAACP), and simulat...
Predictive Policing Explained
Attempts to forecast crime with algorithmic techniques could reinforce existing racial biases in the criminal justice system.
Predictive Policing and the Politics of Patterns
Abstract Patterns are the epistemological core of predictive policing. With the move towards digital prediction tools, the authority of the pattern is rearticulated and reinforced in police work. Based on empirical research about predictive policing software and practices, this article puts the authority of patterns into perspective. Introducing four ideal-typical styles of pattern identification, we illustrate that patterns are not based on a singular logic, but on varying rationalities that give form to and formalize different understandings about crime. Yet, patterns render such different modes of reasoning about crime, and the way in which they feed back into policing cultures, opaque. Ultimately, this invites a stronger reflection about the political nature of patterns.
Predictive Policing and the Politics of Patterns
Abstract. Patterns are the epistemological core of predictive policing. With the move towards digital prediction tools, the authority of the pattern is rea
In the face of rampant AI, is ‘data poisoning’ a new form of civil disobedience?
Boycotts, sabotage and other types of civil disobedience have long served collective action against injustice.
In the face of rampant AI, is ‘data poisoning’ a new form of civil disobedience?
Boycotts, sabotage and other types of civil disobedience have long served collective action against injustice.
Living in Data: A Citizen's Guide to a Better Information Future (Paperback)
Jer Thorp’s analysis of the word “data” in 10,325 New York Times stories written between 1984 and 2018 shows a distinct trend: among the words most closely associated with “data,” we find not only its classic companions “information” and “digital,” but also a variety of new neighbors—from “scandal” and “misinformation” to “ethics,” “friends,” and “play.”To live in data in the twenty-first century
Trial Data Reveals Racial Bias in Age Verification Software
New trial data reveals racial bias in age verification software used for social media restrictions. Discover how unreliable these systems really are now.
How AI-powered policing is endangering the public’s trust in police
Growing concerns about police use of AI could erode the public’s perception of trust in the legal system.
How AI-powered policing is endangering the public’s trust in police
Growing concerns about police use of AI could erode the public’s perception of trust in the legal system.
Feminist Data Manifest-No
1. We refuse to operate under the assumption that risk and harm associated with data practices can be bounded to mean the same thing for everyone, everywhere, at every time. We commit to acknowledging how historical and systemic patterns of violence and exploitation produce differential vulnerabilities for communities.
Palantir's social media manifesto is a blueprint for technofascism
The surveillance firm’s viral X post calls for hard power, conscription and the end of pluralism. AI expert and academic Mark Coeckelbergh on what happens when technology becomes the gateway to authoritarianism
Unpacking the Racism of Digital Blackface in the Information Age
Data Feminism
Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to d...
[122] Arresting Flexibility: A QJE field experiment on police behavior with about 40 outcome variables
A forthcoming paper in the Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE), “A Cognitive View of Policing” (htm), reports results from a field experiment showing that teaching police officers to &…
