9 Best Articles in 2022
The Verge
Palantir has secretly been using New Orleans to test its predictive policing technology
The Verge
20+ min read · From 2018 · Even city council members don’t know about the program. · Shared by 159, including Rodrigo Prior, Christian Müller, jean marc manach, A thinking meat, Bjorn Larsen, Clemens M. Schuster, Philippe Gauvin, Grzegorz Wapiński, Nathan Yau, Chris Messina, Cameron Yick, Thomas Pleil, Thomas Power, Leslie D, Andreas Spiegler, Ward Plunet
Vox
How racist policing took over American cities, explained by a historian
Vox
~11 min read · From 2020 · Shared by 91, including Ida Bae Wells, Christian Surchi, Jennifer Ouellette, Danielle! 🌩, Jason Stanley
healthing.ca
Fund vital mental health interventions, not more policing
healthing.ca
3 min read · Feb 23rd · Shared by 62
BuzzFeed
This Is What A 21st-Century Police State Really Looks Like
BuzzFeed
~19 min read · From 2017 · Far from the booming metropolis of Beijing, China is building a sprawling system that combines dystopian technology and human policing. “It’s a kind of frontline laboratory for surveillance.” · Shared by 175, including Dez S. Papp, felixmichel, Nico Luchsinger, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Andrea Desiato, Konrad Lischka, Mark Kaigwa, Thomas Pleil, Thomas Power
Motherboard
Dozens of Cities Have Secretly Experimented With Predictive Policing Software
Motherboard
10 min read · From 2019 · Documents obtained by Motherboard using public information requests verify previously unconfirmed police department contracts with predictive policing company PredPol. · Shared by 42, including ɐpuɐʎᴉW ᴉʇɐʍɥǝN, Gerd Leonhard, Charles Baldwin, luis antónio santos
The New York Times
‘An Invisible Cage’: How China Is Policing the Future
The New York Times
~11 min read · Jun 26th · Vast surveillance data allows the state to target people whose behavior or characteristics are deemed suspicious by an algorithm, even if they’ve done nothing wrong. · Shared by 181, including John Battelle, Neeraj K. Agrawal, Klaus Eck, Claudia Sommer, Akshat Rathi, Nir Eyal, Sam Maule, Michael (मुकेश) 🇺🇦💪🏻, Ines Bieler, Craig Brown, PhD, Matt Navarra, Kara Swisher, Howard Getson, Constantin Gurdgiev, Kashmir Hill, 艾未未 Ai Weiwei, Azeem Azhar, Dan Gillmor
FiveThirtyEight
Why Statistics Don’t Capture The Full Extent Of The Systemic Bias In Policing
FiveThirtyEight
5 min read · From 2020 · Graphics by Jasmine Mithani Across the U.S., demonstrators have spent the past few weeks protesting against racial disparities in the country’s criminal justice… · Shared by 160, including Jennifer Ouellette, Nate Silver, Larry Ferlazzo, Catherine De Vries, Rick Powell, Deborah Blum, rohit, Birgit Schefer, Pip Morris, Maggie Koerth, Arin Basu
Vox
I'm a black ex-cop, and this is the real truth about race and policing
Vox
9 min read · From 2017 · 5 things I wish people understood about bias in American police departments. · Shared by 44, including Ryan Boren, Mathew Ingram, Ashoka Mukpo, Amy Jo Kim
Scientific American
Killings by Police Declined after Black Lives Matter Protests
Scientific American
4 min read · 2021-03-02 · A study also found body-camera use and community policing increased in places with the most active movements · Shared by 154, including Kanyi Maqubela, William Gibson, Rhea Boyd MD, MPH, Dr. Oni Blackstock, Neil Lewis, Jr., PhD, Clint Smith, Yvette d’Entremont, Loubna Rais, Esther Schindler, Elizabeth Picciuto, Ashley C. Ford, Anil, Jen Simmons, Marc Lamont Hill, Joshua Benton, Evan (he/him), Lydia Polgreen
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themarshallproject.org
How Policing Has — and Hasn’t — Changed Since George Floyd
themarshallproject.org
4 min read · Aug 6th · More than two years after millions took to the streets to protest police violence, the problem persists. That doesn’t mean nothing has changed. · Shared by 116
Nieman Lab
Meet The Kansas City Defender, a nonprofit news outlet aimed at young Black people across the Midwest
Nieman Lab
7 min read · Aug 11th · Shared by 17, including Nieman Foundation, Philanthropy News Digest, Carrie Brown
The Guardian
UK policing and border control infiltrated by war mentality, says report
The Guardian
2 min read · Aug 4th · Campaign groups say hyper-militarisation of British policing agencies is ‘deeply troubling’ · Shared by 10, including Chris Bertram, Sonja Peteranderl
aspistrategist.org.au
Artificial intelligence and policing: it’s a matter of trust
aspistrategist.org.au
3 min read · Aug 30th · From Robocop to Minority Report, the intersection between policing and artificial intelligence has long captured attention in the realm of high-concept science fiction. However, only over the past… · Shared by 9, including Iain Brown, PhD, Marcus Borba
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The Verge
An automated policing program got this man shot twice
The Verge
~20 min read · 2021-05-24 · The Chicago PD made a “heat list” to predict people involved with violent crimes — and instead, it caused them. · Shared by 129, including Mathew Ingram, John Keefe, Katja Evertz, Bilal Zuberi, Jeremiah Owyang | jowyang.eth, jowyang.sol, Patrick Sanwikarja, Howard Getson, John Koetsier
themarshallproject.org
How Policing Has — and Hasn’t — Changed Since George Floyd
themarshallproject.org
4 min read · Aug 6th · More than two years after millions took to the streets to protest police violence, the problem persists. That doesn’t mean nothing has changed. · Shared by 116
The Atlantic
The Breaking Point
The Atlantic
~18 min read · From 2020 · Black men and women are still dying across the country. The power that is American policing has conceded nothing. · Shared by 126, including Mathew Ingram, Alice Wong 王美華, Ibram X. Kendi, BenYT, Mo Ryan, Jay Rosen, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Philanthropy News Digest, Tamara Munzner, Ed Yong, Scott McLeod, Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson 🐙, Atul Gawande
The New Yorker
How Your Family Tree Could Catch a Killer
The New Yorker
7 min read · 2021-11-15 · Genetic genealogists like CeCe Moore are cracking cold cases and transforming policing. As DNA analysis redefines ancestry and anonymity, what knowledge should we be permitted to unlock? · Shared by 68, including Amy Davidson Sorkin, John Hagel, Marsha Collier, Neil Lee, Tactical Tech
WIRED
The Professors Who Call ‘Bullshit’ on Covid-19 Misinformation
WIRED
3 min read · From 2020 · Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom are policing Twitter feeds, Medium posts, and other sources of bad data and misleading charts. · Shared by 107, including Thomas Power, Tom Connor, Christina Farr, MIT Press, Mark Little, luis antónio santos, Carl T. Bergstrom, Jane, Tris Hussey, Daniel Boos
VANITY FAIR
The Abolition Movement
VANITY FAIR
3 min read · From 2020 · What we talk about when we talk about addressing the savage roots of policing: justice and safety for everyone. · Shared by 108, including Matthias Lampe, Kainaz Amaria, Clint Smith, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Mo Ryan, Olivia Nuzzi, Ashley C. Ford, Kara Swisher
Aeon+Psyche
Modern policing was set up to protect the powerful from a ‘criminal underclass’
Aeon+Psyche
2 min read · From 2020 · Today’s police state is rooted in Bentham’s utilitarian ideas, and exists to protect capitalism more than safety or justice · Shared by 96, including 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Gregg Caruso, Matthias Lampe, Brad Brooks
OneZero
Now Is the Time to Dismantle Our Cities’ Invasive Surveillance Infrastructure
OneZero
6 min read · From 2020 · Not all innovation deserves to exist — many surveillance and policing technologies should never have been created in the first place · Shared by 100, including Evan Selinger, Nate Berg
Singularity Hub
This AI Predicts Crime a Week in Advance—and Highlights Policing Bias
Singularity Hub
3 min read · Jul 8th · Researchers say the AI shouldn't be used to allocate police resources but instead to investigate how law enforcement can improve policing strategies. · Shared by 85, including Matthew Turland, ipfconline, Rick Powell
