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Artificial Intelligence and Policing: a Timeline of Events
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How has artificial intelligence been used in policing throughout time?
AI for policing will continue to be tested in a wide range of areas of policing, as it has already proved a useful tool for processing the vast amount of data that police forces can now access. Increasingly, police forces will start to address more risks around bias, ethical concerns, and accuracy.
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2 Rigano, C, “Using Artificial Intelligence to Address Criminal Justice Needs,” NIJ Journal 280, January 2019, https:// www.nij.gov/journals/280/Pages/using-artificial- intelligence-to-address-criminal-justice-needs.aspx.
3 Alzou, S, & Alshibly, H & Al-ma’aitah, M. (2014). Artificial Intelligence in Law Enforcement, A Review. International Journal of Advanced Information Technology. 4. 10.5121/ijait.2014.4401.
4Lapowsky, I., 2018. How The LAPD Uses Data To Predict Crime. [online] Wired. Available at: <https://www.wired.com/story/los-angeles-police-department-predictive-policing/> [Accessed 29 October 2020].
5Nilsson, Patricia. “First UK Police Force To Try Predictive Policing Ends Contract”. Ft.Com, 2020, https://www.ft.com/content/b34b0b08-ef19-11e8-89c8-d36339d835c0. Accessed Oct 2020.
6 Osborne, C., 2019. San Francisco Bans Police From Using Facial Recognition Tech On Residents | Zdnet. [online] ZDNet. Available at: <https://www.zdnet.com/article/san-francisco-bans-facial-recognition-tech-being-used-on-residents/> [Accessed 29 October 2020].
7 National Physical Laboratory, 2020. Metropolitan Police Service Live Facial Recognition Trials. [online] London. Available at: <https://www.met.police.uk/SysSiteAssets/media/downloads/central/advice/met/facial-recognition/met-evaluation-report.pdf> [Accessed 29 October 2020].
8 Oswald, M, Grace, J, Urwin, S & Barnes, G(2018) Algorithmic risk assessment policing models: lessons from the Durham HART model and ‘Experimental’ proportionality, Information & Communications Technology Law, 27:2, 223-250, DOI: 10.1080/13600834.2018.1458455
9 Vincent, J., 2018. Chinese Police Are Using Facial Recognition Sunglasses To Track Citizens. [online] The Verge. Available at: <https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16990030/china-facial-recognition-sunglasses-surveillance> [Accessed 29 October 2020].
10 Greig, J., 2018. Welsh Police Facial Recognition Software Has 92% Fail Rate, Showing Dangers Of Early AI. [online] TechRepublic. Available at: <https://www.techrepublic.com/article/welsh-police-facial-recognition-has-92-fail-rate-showing-dangers-of-early-ai/> [Accessed 29 October 2020].
11 HMICFRS, 2018. Planning Failures In Policing Risk Public Safety – HMICFRS. [online] HMICFRS. Available at: <https://www.justiceinspectorates.gov.uk/hmicfrs/news/news-feed/planning-failures-in-policing-risk-public-safety/> [Accessed 29 October 2020].
12 Bayern, M., 2018. Amazon AI Misidentifies Congress As Criminals, Proves It’s Not Ready For Enterprise. [online] TechRepublic. Available at: <https://www.techrepublic.com/article/amazon-ai-misidentifies-congress-as-criminals-proves-its-not-ready-for-enterprise/> [Accessed 29 October 2020].
13 Murgia, M., 2020. Met Police Try To Calm Tensions As Live Facial Recognition Hits London. [online] Ft.com. Available at: <https://www.ft.com/content/db8bfc3c-4cf4-11ea-95a0-43d18ec715f5> [Accessed 29 October 2020].
14 Hatmaker, T. ” AI Researchers Condemn Predictive Crime Software, Citing Racial Bias And Flawed Methods”. Techcrunch.Com, 2020, https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/23/ai-crime-prediction-open-letter-springer/?guccounter=1. Accessed 29 Oct 2020.
15 Matsakis, Louise. “Amazon Won’T Let Police Use Its Facial-Recognition Tech For One Year”. Wired, 2020, https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-facial-recognition-police-one-year-ban-rekognition/. Accessed 29 Oct 2020.
Leapwise Software and Services Available Through the Crown Commercial Service’s G-Cloud framework
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Police Professional Feature
We’re very pleased that our work has been featured in Police Professional’s cover story. In a special report, you can read some of our insights and what we’ve achieved in some of our most recent work.
We use decision science to work with leading policing organisations, such as Hertfordshire’s Constabulary, Mayor of London’s Office for Policing and Crime, and the College of Policing. By strengthening decision making across policing, we help leaders overcome both the big and small challenges – whether it’s trying to find the optimal levels of stop and search or building robust decision-making approaches for an entire team or organization.
Police performance depends on millions of decisions – at the frontline and in the boardroom. And this month, we’ll be sharing our seven key lessons from decision science as a resource for police leaders worldwide, which you can keep track of by following us here.
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Board Decision Making
Charity boards are making critical decisions at the moment. COVID-19 has decimated the finances of some charities. Charitable giving has slumped in the crisis, a fall in values of investments has affected income from endowments, and income from government contracts seems likely to remain under continued pressure. As well as deciding how to deliver services in our ‘new normal’ social distancing arrangements, boards must urgently decide what services they deliver, whether to merge with other charities to survive and thrive, and whether their leadership team has the right skills and energy to take the organisation forward in a period of intense pressure and uncertainty.
As part of its mission to support improved decision-making, Leapwise has embarked on a pro bono project to support chairs, non-executives and executives working in charities in this challenging period. We’ll be sharing the wisdom of experienced board leaders working in the sector, harnessing the best research in this field and highlighting some insights from decision-science to prompt some new ways of working that we hope will benefit board members and ultimately charity beneficiaries. Our report and conclusions will be published in late September or early October. Please contact Dr. Angelika Love at angelika.love@leapwiseadvisory.com for more information.
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