violent crime

June 4, 2015

PredPol: Tomorrow’s Minority Report Today

How the the gathering of infometrics by Amazon and Wal-Mart teaches the police to “predict” crime… The future of policing, it seems, will look a lot like the present of policing, just faster and with more math. Instead of using… Continue reading
June 14, 2014

Police Departments Gearing up for War at Home

Congress created the military-transfer program in the early 1990s, when violent crime plagued America’s cities and the police felt outgunned by drug gangs. Today, crime has fallen to its lowest levels in a generation, the wars have wound down, and… Continue reading