Issue #87 “This Is a Story About Nerds and Cops”: PredPol and Algorithmic Policing

“This Is a Story About Nerds and Cops”: PredPol and Algorithmic Policing

Jackie Wang

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PredPol co-developer P Jeffrey Brantingham at the Unified Command Post in Los Angeles. 'This is not Minority Report,' he said. Photo: Damian Dovarganes/AP

Issue #87
December 2017










Notes
1

David Weisburd and Peter Neyroud, “Police Science: Toward a New Paradigm,” New Perspectives in Policing, January 2011, 1.

2

Ibid.

3

“PredPol on Current TV with Santa Cruz Crime Analyst Zach Friend,” March 4, 2013 .

4

Mark Andrejevic, Infoglut: How Too Much Information Is Changing the Way We Think and Know (New York: Routledge, 2013), 21.

5

Tiqqun, “The Cybernetic Hypothesis,” 9.

6

Ibid., 17.

7

Matt Ford, “What Caused the Great Crime Decline in the U.S.?” The Atlantic, April 15, 2016 .

8

Manuel Abreu, “Incalculable Loss,” The New Inquiry, August, 19, 2014 .

9

Ronnie Garrett, “Predict and Serve,” Officer.com, January 10, 2013 .

10

Nick O’Malley, “To Predict and to Serve: The Future of Law Enforcement,” Sydney Morning Herald, March 31, 2013 .

11

Garrett, “Predict and Serve.”

12

Ibid.

13

Darwin Bond-Graham and Ali Winston, “All Tomorrow’s Crimes: The Future of Policing Looks a Lot Like Good Branding,” SF Weekly, October 30, 2013 .

14

David Cole, “The Difference Prevention Makes: Regulating Preventive Justice,” Criminal Law and Philosophy, 2014, 5.

15

O’Malley, “To Predict and to Serve.”

16

Khalil Gibran Muhammad, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime and the Making of Modern America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), 5.

17

Ibid., 37.

18

Lauren Helper, “Coders vs. Criminals: PredPol Seeks to Scale Its Crime-Prediction System,” Silicon Valley Business Journal, December 6, 2013.

19

R. Joshua Scannell, “Broken Windows, Broken Code,” Real Life, August 29, 2016 .

20

Tiqqun, “The Cybernetic Hypothesis,” 22.

This text is an excerpt from Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang, forthcoming from Semiotext(e) in February 2018.