Several of the nation’s largest cities rely on federal tax dollars to fund the development of software promising to predict future crime. So it’s been for nearly a decade. For the first time, however, ...

A group of seven Democratic members of Congress has issued a public letter demanding the Justice Department stop issuing grants to fund predictive policing projects, unless the agency “can ensure that ...

The U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), has purchased additional SPSS predictive analytics software to analyze and produce reports on key crime ...

Predictive policing has been shown to be an ineffective and biased policing tool. Yet, the Department of Justice has been funding the crime surveillance and analysis technology for years and continues ...

Recently, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) — the research arm of the Department of Justice — put out a call for researchers to participate in what they called the “Recidivism Forecasting ...