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...
by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 15, 2018 | Criminal Justice
Palantir Technologies, founded by Peter Thiel and one of the most valuable privately-held companies in Silicon Valley, is named after magical stones in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth that allowed its users to see great distances even through solid rock. One unfortunate...
by CivicMeter Staff | Mar 15, 2018 | Criminal Justice
Despite some misgivings over the effectiveness of automated court recordings, the Massachusetts Trial Court will abolish all court reporter positions by June 30 this year. In their place will be an advanced digital audio recording system called For the Record....
