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Ban predictive policing

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Electronic Frontier Foundation
We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online.

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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
Digital rights advocacy 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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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. The us...
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Mariano delli Santi
Legal and Policy Officer at Open Rights Group

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Predictive policing is a dangerous thing that has no place in a democratic society. [...] bias and stereotypes at scale. Black people, migrant people, poor people, people from geographic areas which have been historically over policed are more likely...
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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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Amnesty International UK
Human rights organization

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We call on the UK Government to prohibit the use of automated and ‘predictive’ policing systems in England and Wales. Almost three-quarters of UK police forces are using data-based and data-driven systems to attempt to predict, profile and assess the...
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Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Privacy and civil liberties NGO

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DOJ and DHS Should Not Employ Predictive Policing Technologies Because They Are Untested, Riddled with Bias, and Rife with Systemic Issues. EPIC strongly urges DOJ and DHS to reconsider their funding and use of predictive policing technology due to ...
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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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Brando Benifei
Italian MEP, AI Act co-rapporteur

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The committee bans discriminatory biometric categorisation, predictive policing, emotive recognition and the mass scraping of images.
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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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Fair Trials
Global criminal justice watchdog NGO

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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 rese...
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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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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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CAIR San Francisco Bay Area
Civil rights organization

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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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European Parliament
EU legislative body

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To respect privacy and human dignity, MEPs ask for a permanent ban on the automated recognition of individuals in public spaces, noting that citizens should only be monitored when suspected of a crime. Parliament calls for the use of private facial r...
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Petar Vitanov
Bulgarian MEP, LIBE rapporteur

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Fundamental rights are unconditional. For the first time ever, we are calling for a moratorium on the deployment of facial recognition systems for law enforcement purposes, as the technology has proven to be ineffective and often leads to discriminat...
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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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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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Hannah Sassaman
Policy director, Movement Alliance Project

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But instead of actually predicting and reducing crime and violence, these algorithms promote systems of over-policing and mass incarceration, perpetuating racism and increasing tensions between police and communities. Designers claim that predictive ...
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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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Alex Murray
UK National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) lead for Artificial Intelligence; Director of Threat Leadership at the National Crime Agency

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If you talk about live facial recognition or predictive policing, there will be bias. [...] There is no point releasing something to policing that has bias in it that's not recognised, and everything should be done to minimise it to a level where it ...
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Shabana Mahmood
UK Home Secretary; Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood; former Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary

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votes Against and says:

When I was in justice, my ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times. ...
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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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