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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"predictive policing"”.
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Discrimination, fairness and prediction in policing : fare evasion in New York City
Predictive policing has quickly become widespread in the United States. Practitioners claim it can greatly increase police efficiency and base decisions on objective statistics. Critics say that these algorithms reproduce discriminatory outcomes in a biased justice system. In this thesis, I …
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Essays on Criminal Justice and Inequality
<p>This dissertation encompasses three essays on policing and criminal justice, algorithms and inequality. The first two essays examine the efficacy and equity implications of data-driven algorithms that are increasingly used in important life-altering decision-making contexts. The third essay …
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Operational atmosphere : mediating policing in the "fight against crime" and "rural terrorism" in Chile
From drones to predictive policing systems, there has been an increasing incorporation of new security technologies over the last years in Chile to make the fight against crime and "rural terrorism" more effective, in a context marked by a persistent attention to feelings of insecurity. Even though …
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BayesDB : querying the probable implications of tabular data
… basic data science problems, such as detecting predictive relationships between variables, inferring missing values, simulating probable observations, and identifying statistically similar database entries. BayesDB is suitable for analyzing complex, heterogeneous data tables with no …
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Data-driven policing: how digital technologies transform the practice and governance of policing
… and the way they shape and are shaped by policing environments is rare. Drawing on in-depth interviews with officers in a UK police force and ethnographic fieldwork in a large metropolitan police department in the US, this thesis aims to make a significant empirical and conceptual …
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Artificial intelligence in law enforcement: a critical analysis of the EU AI Act’s framework for protecting public values and fundamental rights
… technologies promise enhanced efficiency, predictive capacity, and resource optimisation in policing, their use in this particularly sensitive domain risks exacerbating discrimination, opacity, and arbitrary decision-making. These risks directly implicate the core values enshrined in …
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Essays On Mechanism And Information Design
… be used for identifying, for example, whether predictive policing algorithms are discriminatory against minority neighborhoods. We also argue that the marginal outcome test (Becker (1993)), the most popular test of taste-based discrimination, fails for policies. We consider a canonical setup …
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Creativity and innovation in the police service: a case study of the Abu Dhabi police
… of Things (IoT) as well as the adoption of policing strategies such as predictive policing. The continued hiring of young officers who were less risk-averse was also found to be another great opportunity of promoting creativity and innovation within the ADP.
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Data-driven optimization for police beat design in South Fulton, Georgia
… South Fulton Police Department (SFPD), using a predictive data-driven optimization approach. Due to rapid urban development and population growth, the original police beats arrangement designed in the 1970s was far from efficient, which leads to low policing efficiency and long 911 call response …
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Epistemic Overload as Epistemic Injustice
… big data technologies in the context of predive policing algorithms. An abductive argument concludes that the introduction of the “Strategic Subjects List” as part of a Chicago policing initiative in 2013 introduced understandings which likely contributed to gun-violence in Chicago and which …