UK: Predictive policing: mapping the future of policing?

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"New predictive policing technologies seem to promise crime reduction. But predictive policing also threatens the extension of policing biases; risks to privacy emergent from the data gathering required; and neglect of alternative interventions tackling the root causes of crime. Are the trade offs too large?"

See the full article: Predictive policing: mapping the future of policing? (Open Democracy, link)

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