What is Predictive Policing?

Question 1

What is predictive policing according to MIT?

Answer 1

It’s racist (perpetuates systemic racism) and bias

Question 2

According to Jeff Branitingham, how do you define crime prediction?

Answer 2

who (person), where (place), risk factors, and event histories

Question 3

What are the categories of crime prediction?

Answer 3

-criminal profiling (risk factors & person)
-intelligence-led forecasting (event histories & person)
-risk terrain modeling (risk factors & place)
-PredPol (event histories & place)

Question 4

What are the two broad types of predictive policing?

Answer 4

-location-based (links between places, events, and historical crime to predict where and when crimes are more likely to happen) (PredPol)
-data about people (Age, gender, marital status, criminal record to predict who has a high chance of being involved in future criminal activity.)(COMPAS)

Question 5

When do smash and grabs occur the most?

Answer 5

During the winter because the police can’t get to them as quick

Question 6

According to the US DoJ, how much more are black people likely to be arrested than white people?

Answer 6

2 times

Question 7

How many more times is a black person more likely to be stopped without a cause than a white person?

Answer 7

5 times

Question 8

What is tech washing?

Answer 8

Human prejudices being baked into predictive tools