9 Best Articles in 2022
Gizmodo
Crime Prediction Software Promised to Be Bias-Free. New Data Shows It Perpetuates It
Gizmodo
~20 min read · 2021-12-02 · Millions of crime predictions left on an unsecured server show PredPol mostly avoided Whiter neighborhoods, targeted Blacks and Latino neighborhoods.
Reader View · Shared by 55, including Esther Schindler, Matthias Lampe, Bob E. Hayes, ACLU, Mathew Ingram
WIRED UK
Police built an AI to predict violent crime. It was seriously flawed
WIRED UK
8 min read · 2020-08-06 · A Home Office-funded project that used artificial intelligence to predict gun and knife crime was found to be wildly inaccurate
Reader View · Shared by 132, including Nige Willson, Backchannel, Dean Anthony Gratton, 𝚛𝚘𝚐𝚎𝚛, Sarah-Jayne Gratton, Neil Hart 💙, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Bob E. Hayes, Marc R Gagné MAPP 🍁
crimereads.com
The Story of Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, and Quite Possibly the Strangest American Crime Film of the…
crimereads.com
6 min read · Jun 21st · Want to talk about one of the strangest, if not the strangest American crime film to emerge in the first half of the 1970s? Then, let’s talk about Michael Ritchie’s neo-noir Prime Cut, as it turns …
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crimereads.com
The 10 Best Crime Novels of the Last Decade
crimereads.com
9 min read · From 2019 · As 2019 comes to a close, it’s time to take stock of the decade that was in crime fiction and mystery. Why? Because we can. Because the books are there to be read and re-read, debated and rec…
Reader View · Shared by 84, including Juan Cole, Jane, Matteo Furia
Guardian Books
Top 10 Scottish crime novels
Guardian Books
5 min read · From 2020 · Scottish novelists from William McIlvanney to Ian Rankin and Denise Mina deliver all the gut-punch thrills of crime without forgetting its human cost
Reader View · Shared by 109, including Alan Chattaway, Esther Schindler, Jane
Five Books
The Best Crime Fiction of 2021
Five Books
6 min read · 2021-12-09 · The best crime fiction books of 2021, recommended by Five Books editor and avid crime book reader, Sophie Roell.
Reader View · Shared by 53
projects.tampabay.com
Pasco’s sheriff created a futuristic program to stop crime before it happens. It monitors and harasses families.
projects.tampabay.com
20+ min read · 2020-09-03 · Families were subjected to around-the-clock visits from deputies, who often arrived without evidence of a crime.
Reader View · Shared by 93, including Audrey Watters, Patricia Smith, sonia, Cory Doctorow, Psymposia, Bjorn Larsen, Gengo 🦁, Mathew Ingram, Deborah Blum, Marc R Gagné MAPP 🍁, Shaun King
The Guardian
Arundhati Roy on India’s Covid catastrophe: ‘We are witnessing a crime against humanity’
The Guardian
~20 min read · 2021-04-28 · The long read: It’s hard to convey the full depth and range of the trauma, the chaos and the indignity that people are being subjected to. Meanwhile, Modi and his allies are telling us not to complain
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BBC News (World)
How Japan has almost eradicated gun crime
BBC News (World)
7 min read · From 2018 · Japan has one of the lowest rates of gun crime in the world. In 2014 there were just six gun deaths, compared to 33,599 in the US. What is the secret?
Reader View · Shared by 80, including Carolyn Porco, Tom Connor
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crimereads.com
The Story of Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, and Quite Possibly the Strangest American Crime Film of the…
crimereads.com
6 min read · Jun 21st · Want to talk about one of the strangest, if not the strangest American crime film to emerge in the first half of the 1970s? Then, let’s talk about Michael Ritchie’s neo-noir Prime Cut, as it turns …
Reader View · Shared by 127
Scientific American
Sending Health Care Workers instead of Cops Can Reduce Crime
Scientific American
4 min read · Jun 9th · A study shows that first responders who are not police can be more effective for low-level incidents
Reader View · Shared by 228, including Maia Szalavitz, Emily Willingham
Los Angeles Review of Books
The Internet Is a Crime Against Humanity
Los Angeles Review of Books
6 min read · May 22nd · Justin E. H. Smith’s new book, “The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is,” shows how the human dream of telecommunication has been twisted into a nightmare....
Reader View · Shared by 188, including Tactical Tech
The Atavist Magazine
A Crime Beyond Belief - The Atavist Magazine
The Atavist Magazine
Apr 30th · A Harvard-trained lawyer was convicted of committing bizarre home invasions. Psychosis may have compelled him to do it. But in a case that became a public sensation, he wasn’t the only one who seemed…
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The Markup
Crime Prediction Software Promised to Be Free of Biases. New Data Shows It Perpetuates Them
The Markup
~20 min read · 2021-12-02 · Millions of crime predictions left on an unsecured server show PredPol mostly avoided Whiter neighborhoods, targeted Black and Latino neighborhoods
Reader View · Shared by 51, including Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org ☮️, Cory Doctorow, Ibram X. Kendi, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Dorothea Baur (Dr.), Joel Eastwood, Tactical Tech
ProPublica
Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in…
ProPublica
20+ min read · 2021-10-08 · Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem…
Reader View · Shared by 314, including Ex Apologist, Dr. John Grohol 🇺🇦, Shaun King, Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷, Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis, Joshua Benton, Stephanie Moulton Sarkis PhD, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Graham Brown-Martin, Catherine Rampell, Dov Nelkin 🗻, Julia Ioffe, Dan Gillmor, Richard Deitsch, GreenKerene, Steve Locke, Clint Smith
Scientific American
Sending Health Care Workers instead of Cops Can Reduce Crime
Scientific American
4 min read · Jun 9th · A study shows that first responders who are not police can be more effective for low-level incidents
Reader View · Shared by 228, including Maia Szalavitz, Emily Willingham
VICE
Over 1,000 AI Experts Condemn Racist Algorithms That Claim to Predict Crime
VICE
2 min read · From 2020 · Technologists from MIT, Harvard, and Google say research claiming to predict crime based on human faces creates a "tech-to-prison pipeline" that reinforces racist policing.
Reader View · Shared by 54, including 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Bob E. Hayes, Merkstatt, Ian M Calvert, Chris Heilmann
thebookshelfcafe.news
The Bookshelf Cafe News
thebookshelfcafe.news
3 min read · From 2020 · True-crime research, novel writing research, and updates. ***READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED*** BLOG POST #233: This week, I’m sharing research on … More Fugitive On The Run There are plenty of book…
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The Globe and Mail
Here are the five best true-crime podcasts
The Globe and Mail
4 min read · 2021-10-26 · Author and New York Times columnist Sarah Weinman on true-crime podcasts worth the listen
Reader View · Shared by 41
Los Angeles Review of Books
The Internet Is a Crime Against Humanity
Los Angeles Review of Books
6 min read · May 22nd · Justin E. H. Smith’s new book, “The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is,” shows how the human dream of telecommunication has been twisted into a nightmare....
Reader View · Shared by 188, including Tactical Tech
The Atlantic
How the Pandemic Broke Social Interaction
The Atlantic
7 min read · Mar 30th · Crime, “unruly passenger” incidents, and other types of strange behavior have all soared recently. Why?
Reader View · Shared by 156, including Felix M, Olga Khazan, Dr. Syra Madad, John Koetsier, David Weigel, Guy Kawasaki, Jen Simmons, Howard Getson
amnesty.org
Forensic Methodology Report: How to catch NSO Group’s Pegasus
amnesty.org
20+ min read · 2021-07-18 · NSO Group claims that its Pegasus spyware is only used to “investigate terrorism and crime” and “leaves no traces whatsoever”. This Forensic Methodology Report shows that neither of these statements…
Reader View · Shared by 91, including Privacy Matters 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺🌻, Matthew Green, Tactical Tech, Michael Seemann, Fabio Chiusi, Loubna Rais, Kai Biermann
