In an effort to find a suspect in a 1990 murder, there was…
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DNA face to facial recognition in attempt to find suspect
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Unreliable FBI crime data
The Marshall Project and Axios report that the FBI changed their reporting system…
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Inadequate hate crime statistics
For ProPublica, Ken Schwencke reports on a poor data system that relies on…
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AI-generated voice used to fake phone call and steal money
Reporting for The Washington Post, Drew Harwell describes the case of the fake…
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The Crime Machine
I’m behind on my podcast listening (well, behind in everything tbh), but Reply…
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Flawed hate crime data collection
Data can provide you with important information, but when the collection process is…
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Police surveillance in a digital world
Glenn Smith and Andrew Knapp for the Post and Courier investigate the current…
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The different trends in American crime
Crime is up? Crime is down? It depends on who you ask and…
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Bias built in to crime prediction
Predictive policing seems to be playing a bigger role in court decisions these…
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Math of crime and terrorism
Numberphile, from the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, is one my new favorite YouTube…
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Predictive policing
Crime and data have an old history together, but because there are new…
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Catalog of criminal justice data
There’s a lot of data on criminal justice — prison populations, crime rates,…
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Criminal sentencing and a stat lesson on probabilities and uncertainty
Pennsylvania is considering the use of risk assessment — the chances that someone…
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Tracking criminal movements and predicting hot spots
In the latest SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Chaturapruek, et al. describe modeling…
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Map shows illegal activity in San Francisco Chinatown, from 1885
From the David Rumsey map collection, the detailed map of San Francisco Chinatown…
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Stop-and-frisk hotspots mapped →
WNYC mapped all street stops that resulted in the recovery of a gun,…
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Why robbing banks for a living is a bad idea
In an article for Significance Magazine, economists Barry Reilly, Neil Rickman and Robert…
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Challenges measuring crime worldwide
You would think that something so concrete, carefully recorded by authorities, wouldn’t be…
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Social network analysis used to convict slumlords
In working with tenants to help their city attorney convict a group of…
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When crime happens in major cities
Does more crime happen during the late hours of the night or in…