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PREDICTIVE POLICING

PREDICTIVE POLICING

Seriously, no one watched Robocop?

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IDH VICTORIES: PREDICITIVE POLICING

Fixing this mess requires understanding that this is an ecosystem of code, culture, and constitutional law. And that the cops -- especially in our home city -- are scrambling for solutions. But this is a bad one.

“Criminal Conviction By Algorithms are Ruining Innocent Lives.” Op-ed.  With Thomas Freeman and Elizabeth Otto.  Omaha World-Herald.   August 29, 2021.

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  • TRAINGS AND WORKSHOPS

    “Algorithmic Bias in the Criminal Justice System: Cheat Codes for Defense Attorneys.”  Minnesota Legal Rights Center.   With Marci Exted and Tom Freeman. Minneapolis, MN and Online: Fall 2022.   


    “The Civil Rights Challenges Posed by Algorithmic Bias.” Iowa State Bar Association. Presented by Tom Freeman using shared IDH IP.  2022. 
     

    “Legal Considerations of Algorithmic Decision Making.”  Nebraska State Bar Association.  Presented by Tom Freeman using shared IDH IP. 2022. 

  • INVITED TALKS

    “Algorithmic Bias: How Cross-Functional Networks Can Fight Digitized 

    Discrimination.” HeiderBusiness Symposium. With Dr.Aaron McKain, Thomas Freeman, Elizabeth Otto, Ayin Monge, and Julius Hernandez. Creighton University.  Omaha, NE.  October 2021. 

    “Reckoning With Robots; The Constitutional Implications of Using Algorithms to Make Human Decisions.”  Midwest Association of Legal Studies in Business/Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference.  With Thomas Freeman.  Chicago: March 2021.

    “Digital Ethics: What’s Next?”OSTROM Workshop.  Indiana University School of Business. Bloomington, IN.  With Julius Hernandez and Shea Sullivan. February 2021.  Invited.

    “Rhetoric Versus the Robots: Mapping the Legal and Ethical Dimensions of Algorithmic Discrimination.”Consortium for the Study of Religion, Ethics and Society at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.  Bloomington, IN.  November 2019.

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PREDICITIVE POLICING HARMS

Algorithms and AI programmed using historic data -- and protected identity categories -- may direct police to target the same communities they have harassed in the past.

And what happens when the predictions are wrong?

IDH CASE STUDY

Predictive Policing In Chicago: Targeting Innocents?

But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Even before we ask questions about failure rates or the successes of these tools, are these algorithms even constitutional?

Below, IDH Student Researcher Maddie Britto explores the constitutionality of an predictive policing program implemented in Chicago.

The 4th amendment protects individuals from unreasonable searches and seizures and cases of predictive policing will have significant influence on these rights for three key reasons.

In Chicago, police have tried to curb gun violence by using an algorithm called the Strategic Subject list or S.S.L. The algorithm was developed by Illinois Institute of Technology in 2013 in an attempt to maximize proficiency for the limited police resources.

However, recent research and data suggest that the S.S.L. algorithm has been a tool for the Chicago police department police departments across the country to target individuals who have not yet committed a crime.

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