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.
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
Guardian Books
Top 10 Scottish crime novels
Guardian Books
5 min read · 2020-05-27 · Scottish novelists from William McIlvanney to Ian Rankin and Denise Mina deliver all the gut-punch thrills of crime without forgetting its human cost
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…
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.
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.
thebookshelfcafe.news
The Bookshelf Cafe News
thebookshelfcafe.news
3 min read · 2020-05-25 · 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…
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
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?
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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.
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.
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
The New Yorker
The Best Podcasts of 2021
The New Yorker
8 min read · 2021-12-14 · The shows about music, family, crime, and more that pushed the medium forward.
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VICE
Over 1,000 AI Experts Condemn Racist Algorithms That Claim to Predict Crime
VICE
2 min read · 2020-06-23 · 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.
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
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
The Guardian
Palantir: the ‘special ops’ tech giant that wields as much real-world power as Google
The Guardian
9 min read · From 2017 · Peter Thiel’s CIA-backed, data-mining firm honed its ‘crime predicting’ techniques against insurgents in Iraq. The same methods are now being sold to police departments. Will they inflame already…
MIT Sloan Management Review
Casting the Dark Web in a New Light
MIT Sloan Management Review
4 min read · From 2019 · The financial costs of cyber crime are set to reach $6 trillion by 2021, and executives are increasingly struggling to protect their businesses. Cyber criminals prosper partly because they’ve built a sophisticated supply chain on the dark web, whereby they provide every service necessary to launch – and profit from – an attack. Researchers at the Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan (CAMS) consortium analyzed dark web markets and interviewed cybersecurity experts to build a comprehensive portrait of the online cyber crime ecosystem. In a white paper for the MIT Sloan Management Review, the authors describe the marketplaces where hackers and attackers come together. The paper also offers much-needed fresh strategies for combating the threat.
VICE
'FIND THIS FUCK:' Inside Citizen’s Dangerous Effort to Cash In On Vigilantism
VICE
~17 min read · 2021-05-27 · Internal documents, messages, and roadmaps show how crime app Citizen is pushing the boundary of what a private, app-enabled vigilante force may be capable of.
The New Yorker
The Best Podcasts of 2021
The New Yorker
8 min read · 2021-12-14 · The shows about music, family, crime, and more that pushed the medium forward.
BuzzFeed News
DEA Can Secretly Surveil George Floyd Protesters
BuzzFeed News
3 min read · 2020-06-02 · The Justice Department gave the agency the temporary power “to enforce any federal crime committed as a result of the protests over the death of George Floyd.”
The New Yorker
The Best TV Shows of 2021
The New Yorker
3 min read · 2021-12-08 · Including “Love Life,” which gets the award for most improved, and “Real Housewives,” which is morphing into a true-crime hit.
