NEW YORK: As pressure mounts to address policy brutality and racism, California’s Santa Cruz is poised to become the first US city to ban predictive policing – despite headquartering the firm that pioneered the technology.
Used by police forces across the United States for almost a decade, PredPol Inc – short for predictive policing – relies on an algorithm to analyse police records and identify crime-ridden areas to determine when and where officers patrol.
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