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 ...

“Predictive policing” has an enticing ring to it. The idea is that you feed a bunch of data into a mysterious algorithm, and poof, out comes intelligence about the future that tells police where the ...

For years, cops have attempted to use data analysis to conduct more efficient investigations. A new study claims that's probably a huge waste of time. Reading time 2 minutes Predictive policing—the ...

TL;DR: Predictive analytics influences day-to-day decisions once forecasts change behavior rather than sit inside ...