From Los Angeles to New York, there is a quiet revolution underway within police departments across the country. Just as major tech companies and political campaigns have leveraged data to target ...

But does predictive policing actually work? One study —touted seemingly every time a police department decides to contract with PredPol — shows that PredPol’s software can lead to a 7.4 percent ...

This is Episode 12 of Real Future, Fusion’s documentary series about technology and society. More episodes available at realfuture.tv. There’s a new kind of software that claims to help law ...

As images of Ferguson, Missouri’s AR-15 totting police force made their way across the Internet this week, an ever-concerned public began to wonder who decided to give cops in an American city the ...

Emerging from weeks of mass demonstrations and the killing of two cops, Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton showcased city crime stats for 2014 this month to a room full of ...

Last week we published the story, “Policing the Future,” an examination of how the St. Louis County Police Department — in the wake of the death of Michael Brown and the ensuing protests in Ferguson — ...

Police departments in major American cities are trying to prevent violent crime with the help of an unlikely ally: data mining. In recent years, law enforcement agencies have been experimenting with ...

Police departments in major US cities have been trying to forestall violent crime by mining data and using algorithms to predict when and where crimes are likely to take place — and who is likely to ...

A growing number of police departments are using software programs that companies claim can predict where crime is going to happen. When police officers decide which blocks to patrol, they usually ...

“You are being watched,” proclaims the opening narration to the television series Person of Interest. “The government has a secret system; a machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I ...