DOJ funding pipeline subsidizes questionable big data surveillance technologies
- Written by Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, Professor of Law, American University
Predictive policing aimed to identify crime hot spots and 'chronic' offenders but missed the mark.Patrick T. Fallon for The Washington Post via Getty ImagesPredictive policing has been shown to be an ineffective and biased policing tool. Yet, the Department of Justice has been funding the crime surveillance and analysis technology for years and...




