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Illinois Scraps Child Abuse Prediction Software for Not ‘Predicting Much’
Chicago is ending an algorithmic child abuse prevention program after the data mining software failed to flag at-risk kids who died while swamping caseworkers with alerts that thousands of other children were at imminent risk of death.
The Always-On Police Camera
Body cameras that automatically activate in response to the sound of gunfire could forever change people’s expectations about public spaces.
Taser’s Latest Body Cams Push Is Unregulated, Unprecedented, and Disturbing
On Wednesday, Axon (formerly “Taser”) announced its offer to outfit every cop in the US with a free body camera, with rollout beginning as soon as the end of the month. About 20% of police departments use body cameras. The overwhelmingly majority of all police departments have no policies about how…
Kentucky Is Turning to Drones to Fix Its Unsolved-Murder Crisis
Only 52 percent of the state’s homicides result in an arrest when the victim is black. Could automating police work help?
