by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 15, 2018 | Criminal Justice
How many gang members are in the United States? It depends who you ask, and what political party they affiliate with. In his State of the Union speech this January, President Donald Trump called one such gang, the MS-13 as “worse than Al-Qaeda” and “true animals.” The...
by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 15, 2018 | Criminal Justice
Many industries have their own version of the same dilemma: When driverless cars kill their first pedestrian, who should be blamed? When that automated doctor fouls up your diagnosis, who do we point the finger at? And when innocent people are sent to jail because...
by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 15, 2018 | Criminal Justice
Police interactions are complex. They aren’t always clear or easy to dissect, even after the fact and with the benefit of footage. But one group of researchers believe they can use machine learning to dissect body cam footage and help police departments train...
by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 15, 2018 | Criminal Justice
More than three months after FBI Director Christopher Wray promised to restore the missing crime tables in the FBI’s annual crime report, the data is nowhere to be seen. The FBI has released an annual Crime in the United States report every year since 1930. Collated...
by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 15, 2018 | Criminal Justice
Big Data could be viewed as a great fit for the courtroom. The legal system is built on rules derived from cases decided in the past and whose precedence is still honored today. Artificial Intelligence and machine learning systems are trained along the same lines as...
