{"id":4133,"date":"2021-12-22T13:37:21","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T12:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/22\/techscape-can-ai-really-predict-crime\/"},"modified":"2021-12-22T13:37:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T12:37:21","slug":"techscape-can-ai-really-predict-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/22\/techscape-can-ai-really-predict-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"TechScape: can AI really predict crime?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up for discussion in this week\u2019s newsletter: Years after shuttering a similarly controversial scheme, the LAPD wants to use tech to profile potential felons<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/ng-interactive\/2021\/jun\/25\/techscape-sign-up\">Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 2011, the Los Angeles police department rolled out a novel approach to policing called Operation Laser. Laser \u2013 which stood for Los Angeles Strategic Extraction and Restoration \u2013 was the first predictive policing programme of its kind in the US, allowing the LAPD to use historical data to predict with laser precision (hence the name) where future crimes might be committed and who might commit them.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/nov\/07\/lapd-predictive-policing-surveillance-reform\">it was all but precise<\/a>. The programme used historical crime data like arrests, calls for service, field interview cards \u2013 which police filled out with identifying information every time they stopped someone regardless of the reason \u2013 and more to map out \u201cproblem areas\u201d for officers to focus their efforts on or assign criminal risk scores to individuals. Information collected during these policing efforts was fed into computer software that further helped automate the department\u2019s crime-prediction efforts. The picture of crime that the software presented, activist groups like the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition argue, simply validated existing policing patterns and decisions, inherently criminalising locations and people based on a controversial hypothesis (ie, that where crimes have once occurred they will occur again). The data the LAPD used to predict the future was rife with bias, leading to the over-policing and disproportionate targeting of Black and brown communities \u2013 often the same ones they had been targeting for years, experts argue.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/dec\/22\/techscape-lapd-operation-laser\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ca3a6911317ef40dcea3608f8238c39c6e5c39d9\/0_438_6486_3890\/master\/6486.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ca134523ac5d78489b91324d45ab2f86\" title=\"TechScape: can AI really predict crime?\" \/>Up for discussion in this week\u2019s newsletter: Years after shuttering a similarly controversial scheme, the LAPD wants to use tech to profile potential felons<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<br \/>\nIn 2011, the Los Angeles police department rolled out a novel approach to policing called Operation Laser. Laser \u2013 which stood for Los Angeles Strategic Extraction and Restoration \u2013 was the first predictive policing programme of its kind in the US, allowing the LAPD to use historical data to predict with laser precision (hence the name) where future crimes might be committed and who might commit them.<br \/>\nBut it was all but precise. The programme used historical crime data like arrests, calls for service, field interview cards \u2013 which police filled out with identifying information every time they stopped someone regardless of the reason \u2013 and more to map out \u201cproblem areas\u201d for officers to focus their efforts on or assign criminal risk scores to individuals. Information collected during these policing efforts was fed into computer software that further helped automate the department\u2019s crime-prediction efforts. The picture of crime that the software presented, activist groups like the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition argue, simply validated existing policing patterns and decisions, inherently criminalising locations and people based on a controversial hypothesis (ie, that where crimes have once occurred they will occur again). The data the LAPD used to predict the future was rife with bias, leading to the over-policing and disproportionate targeting of Black and brown communities \u2013 often the same ones they had been targeting for years, experts argue. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up for discussion in this week\u2019s newsletter: Years after shuttering a similarly controversial scheme, the LAPD wants to use tech to profile potential felons Don\u2019t get TechScape delivered to your inbox? Sign up here In 2011, the Los Angeles police department rolled out a novel approach to policing called Operation Laser. Laser \u2013 which stood &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/22\/techscape-can-ai-really-predict-crime\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TechScape: can AI really predict crime?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}