9 Best Articles in 2021
Vox
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.
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.
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.
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.”
nature
Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database
nature
7 min read · 2019-08-19 · Some highly cited academics seem to be heavy self-promoters — but researchers warn against policing self-citation.
VANITY FAIR
The Abolition Movement
VANITY FAIR
3 min read · 2020-08-25 · What we talk about when we talk about addressing the savage roots of policing: justice and safety for everyone.
The Intercept
In the Chicago Police Department, If the Bosses Say It Didn’t Happen, It Didn’t Happen
The Intercept
20+ min read · From 2016 · Two young officers began to hear rumors of a drug gang operating within the Chicago Police Department. They were skeptical at first.
The Verge
An automated policing program got this man shot twice
The Verge
~20 min read · May 24th · The Chicago PD made a “heat list” to predict people involved with violent crimes — and instead, it caused them.
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The New York Times
Opinion | How the Father of Modern Policing ‘Abolished’ the Police
The New York Times
6 min read · Jun 3rd · Reshaping American policing is not some shocking new idea from the radical left.
Stanford HAI
Designing Anti-Racist Technologies for a Just Future
Stanford HAI
7 min read · Jul 2nd · Experts critiqued smart cities, agtech, blockchain, and policing during Stanford's first Technology and Racial Equity Conference.
NBC News
Predictive policing strategies for children face pushback
NBC News
9 min read · Jun 6th · “They basically built this system as a justification to chase the bad kids out of town," said one expert.
CNN
Wisconsin bans use of chokeholds among raft of policing bills
CNN
2 min read · Jun 23rd · Wisconsin's Democratic governor approved a series of policing bills bills on Tuesday, including a ban on the use of chokeholds by officers except in life-threatening situations.
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The Atlantic
The Breaking Point
The Atlantic
~18 min read · 2020-06-10 · Black men and women are still dying across the country. The power that is American policing has conceded nothing.
WIRED
If Done Right, AI Could Make Policing Fairer
WIRED
9 min read · 2020-06-25 · Stanford's Fei-Fei Li says technology should be developed in an inclusive way that reflects our values.
Scientific American
Killings by Police Declined after Black Lives Matter Protests
Scientific American
4 min read · Mar 2nd · A study also found body-camera use and community policing increased in places with the most active movements
The New Yorker
The Invention of the Police
The New Yorker
5 min read · 2020-07-13 · Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery.
FiveThirtyEight
Why Statistics Don’t Capture The Full Extent Of The Systemic Bias In Policing
FiveThirtyEight
5 min read · 2020-06-25 · 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…
The New Republic
Policing and the English Language
The New Republic
~13 min read · 2020-03-31 · The poisonous contradictions of coptalk
The New Yorker
The Detectives Who Never Forget a Face
The New Yorker
20+ min read · From 2016 · London’s new squad of “super-recognizers” could inspire a revolution in policing.
themarshallproject.org
David Simon on Baltimore’s Anguish
themarshallproject.org
~18 min read · From 2015 · Freddie Gray, the drug war, and the decline of “real policing.”
WIRED
The Professors Who Call ‘Bullshit’ on Covid-19 Misinformation
WIRED
3 min read · 2020-03-24 · Jevin West and Carl Bergstrom are policing Twitter feeds, Medium posts, and other sources of bad data and misleading charts.
