Author: Barry Lam
Publisher: Hi-Phi Nation
Publication Year: 2019
Summary: The following podcast episode explores how the promise of machine learning and artificial intelligence to increase efficiency in all walks of life has found its way into the world of policing. Barry Lam discusses the case of predictive policing in Los Angeles, showing us the various programs being implemented (e.g., PredPol, CSOC, and Operation LASER), how these initiatives are being praised and embraced by law enforcement while citizens are working hard to question and challenge such approaches. Interviews show how current practices using predictive policing in the LAPD may lead to self-fulfilling prophecies, the persistence of racial discrimination, and how the marriage between policing and machine learning in LA is just the beginning for applications throughout the nation.