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.”
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.
nature
Hundreds of extreme self-citing scientists revealed in new database
nature
7 min read · From 2019 · Some highly cited academics seem to be heavy self-promoters — but researchers warn against policing self-citation.
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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POLITICOEurope
European Parliament calls for a ban on facial recognition
POLITICOEurope
1 min read · Oct 6th · Non-binding resolution also asks for AI-based predictive policing ban.
The Washington Post
A Detroit community college professor is fighting Silicon Valley’s surveillance machine. People are listening.
The Washington Post
~11 min read · Sep 17th · Chris Gilliard grew up with racist policing in Detroit. He sees a new form of oppression in the tech we use every day.
CNN
Bipartisan policing talks officially end
CNN
3 min read · Sep 22nd · After months of negotiating, the bipartisan talks around overhauling policing laws have broken down without a deal.
Freakonomics
What Are the Police for, Anyway? (Ep. 476)
Freakonomics
20+ min read · Sep 23rd · The U.S. is an outlier when it comes to policing, as evidenced by more than 1,000 fatal shootings by police each year. But we’re an outlier in other ways too: a heavily-armed populace, a fragile…
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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
Vox
A professor became a police officer — and learned what’s really broken about policing
Vox
~11 min read · May 19th
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.”
