Ban predictive policing

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  Electronic Frontier Foundation

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  Shout it from the rooftops: math cannot predict crime. But it can further criminalize neighborhoods already disproportionately over-represented in police data due to constant surveillance.

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  Open Rights Group

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  Many AI systems have been proven to magnify discrimination and inequality. In particular, so-called ‘predictive policing’ and biometric surveillance systems are disproportionately used to target marginalised groups including racialised, working class...

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  Mariano delli Santi

  Legal and Policy Officer at Open Rights Group

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  bias and stereotypes at scale. Black people, migrant people, poor people, people from geographic areas which have been historically over policed are more likely to be identified as at risk of committing a crime. [...] Predictive policing is a dangero...

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  David Davis

  UK Conservative Member of Parliament

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  Last week, we saw AI misuse lead to the early retirement of one Chief Constable. Now, the police reportedly plan to use AI to usher in an era of 'predictive policing', targeting criminals before they commit crimes. This is unbelievably unwise. [...] ...

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  Amnesty International UK

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  These tools to “predict crime” harm us all by treating entire communities as potential criminals, making society more racist and unfair. Governments across the UK must prohibit the use of these technologies. Right now, they can demand transparency on...

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  ARTICLE 19

  Global free-expression NGO

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  Notwithstanding the limited reach of the ban on predictive policing — which excludes event and location-based predictions — the guidelines must clarify that predicting ‘risk of committing a criminal offence’ includes all systems that purport to predi...

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  Madison Cutler

  Policy brief author, Ford School

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  Predictive policing programs utilize algorithms to allocate law enforcement resources to areas and persons identified as having a higher risk for crime, despite a lack of evidence showing the efficacy of these determinations. Commercially-produced an...

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  Fair Trials

  Global criminal justice watchdog

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  Today, Fair Trials has launched an interactive online tool designed to show how the police and other criminal justice authorities are using predictive systems to profile people and areas as criminal, even before alleged crimes have occurred. Our res...

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  Dragoș Tudorache

  MEP; EU AI Act co-rapporteur

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  We don't want mass surveillance, we don't want social scoring, we don't want predictive policing in the European Union, full stop.

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  Birgit Sippel

  German MEP, civil liberties advocate

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  It is crucial to acknowledge that elements of structural injustice are intensified by AI systems and we must therefore ban the use of predictive systems in law enforcement and criminal justice once and for all. Any AI or automated systems that are de...

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  Griff Ferris

  Fair Trials legal and policy officer

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  Age-old discrimination is being hard-wired into new age technologies in the form of predictive and profiling AI systems used by law enforcement and criminal justice authorities. Seeking to predict people’s future behaviour and punish them for it is c...

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  AlgorithmWatch

  Algorithmic accountability nonprofit

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  AI systems used by law enforcement often have technological or commercial barriers that prevent effective and meaningful scrutiny, transparency, and accountability. It is crucial that individuals affected by these systems’ decisions are aware of thei...

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  Sameena Usman

  CAIR-SFBA government relations coordinator

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  We thank the Oakland City Council for their unanimous vote to protect our dignity and privacy through banning predictive policing and biometric surveillance technology.

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  Sarah Chander

  Digital rights policy adviser

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  I can’t profess to have researched every particular high-risk use in detail, but many of them should be banned. Predictive policing is a really good example. Many people believe that if you de-bias predictive policing systems, they will no longer pro...

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  The People’s Plan NYC

  NYC multi‑group policy platform

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  Problem: Predictive policing is software that is sold to the public as a way for police to “predict crime.” In practice, this software automates racial profiling, harvesting data from sources like the gang databases, which is 99 percent Black and Lat...

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  Hannah Sassaman

  Policy director, Movement Alliance Project

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  Authentic article excerpt, but it must show an omission: the later sentence beginning “We have a narrow window...” is separated from the earlier paragraph by several intervening paragraphs and needs [...].

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  Corey O’Connor

  Pittsburgh City Council member

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  These are things we are seeing -- a trend across the country that the technology is not up to speed enough and people are getting arrested that should not be. [...] You use crime data and you use mathematics to basically say where to put police. It'...

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  Liberty (UK)

  UK civil liberties organization

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  votes For and says:

  Ban predictive policing algorithms.

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  Ricky Burgess

  Pittsburgh City Council member

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  I'm in favor of banning predictive policing: This bill does not ban predictive policing.

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  Andy Mills

  Santa Cruz police chief

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  Predictive policing has been shown over time to put officers in conflict with communities rather than working with the communities. [...] "until such time that it can be peer reviewed and scientifically proven."

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  Justin Cummings

  Former Santa Cruz mayor

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  Understanding how predictive policing and facial recognition can be disproportionately biased against people of color, we officially banned the use of these technologies in the city of Santa Cruz. [...] "help eliminate racism in policing".

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  Matt Cagle

  ACLU tech and civil liberties attorney

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  As Santa Cruz rightly recognized, predictive policing and facial recognition are dangerous, racially biased technologies that should never be used by our government. [...] Lawmakers across the country have a responsibility to step up and dismantle s...

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  David O’Connor

  CFR Net Politics guest blogger

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  That’s not to say that police departments shouldn’t use software to analyze their data. [...] Further development of the technology is inevitable, so local governments and police departments should develop appropriate standards and practices. [...] P...

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  Lindsey Barrett

  Law scholar and attorney

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  This article will argue that the use of predictive policing algorithms at the border should not be barred outright, as the government should permit potentially beneficial uses of the technology to develop. However, use of these algorithms should be c...

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  William J. Bratton

  Former NYPD and LAPD police chief

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  We have a number of predictive-policing initiatives underway [...] It is 21st-century policing – it’s great.

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