“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 ...

This is Episode 12 of Real Future, Fusion’s documentary series about technology and society. More episodes available at realfuture.tv. There’s a new kind of software that claims to help law ...

Sonia Moran has been pleasantly surprised by the increased police patrols in her Pacoima neighborhood lately. She may be noticing the results of a new approach at preventative law enforcement ...being ...

Inside American prisons, the most human part of incarceration is often the phone call home. Now those conversations are being quietly fed into artificial intelligence systems, turning intimate ...

The UP police has launched an AI-powered app called YAKSH, which identifies suspicious elements through facial recognition.

Predictive policing technologies infringe human rights “at their heart” and should be prohibited in the UK, argues Green MP Siân Berry, after tabling an amendment to the government’s forthcoming Crime ...

Years of secrecy by America's police departments about their use of computer programs predicting where crimes will occur, and who will commit them, are under fire in legal cases nationwide. The ...

Have you heard of “predictive policing”? The idea that big data can help law enforcement agencies to stop crime before it happens is a recent point of discussion in both criminology thought groups and ...

In 2025, Computer Weekly’s police technology coverage focused extensively on developments in the use of data-driven technologies such as facial recognition and predictive policing.

Law enforcement authorities and agencies should embrace Artificial Intelligence (AI) in their work to increase their efficiency and effectiveness, and to keep up with technological innovations, said ...