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Crime and Justice News
Oct 3, 20232 min read
How 'Geofence Warrants' Could Lead to Wrongful Arrests
In January 2020, Zachary McCoy of Florida received a concerning email from Google: local authorities were asking the company for his...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 25, 20232 min read
NYC Testing 'Security Robot' Called K5 In Times Square Subway Station
What weighs 400 pounds, stands 5-foot-3, and, according to Mayor Eric Adams, will be a valuable tool in New York City’s law enforcement...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 25, 20232 min read
Man Sues Over Jailing Blamed On Facial Recognition Mistake
Randal Quran Reid was driving to his mother’s home the day after Thanksgiving last year when police pulled him over and arrested him on...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 11, 20232 min read
Ethics Advisers Quit After Axon Plan For Taser-Equipped Drones
A few days after the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Tex., last May, Axon Enterprises CEO Rick Smith announced the company had...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 11, 20231 min read
NYPD Used Federal Funds For Two Robot Dogs, Privacy Advocates Fret
The New York Police Department used federal government cash to purchase two robotic dogs, known as Digidogs, for $750,000. The cash was...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 8, 20232 min read
Detroit Hit With Third Suit Over Facial Recognition False Arrest
A Detroit woman is suing the city and a police officer, saying she was falsely arrested when she was eight months pregnant and accused of...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 14, 20232 min read
Dayton Police: 'Challenging' to Prove ShotSpotter Effectiveness
In 2019, Dayton, Ohio, approved the use of ShotSpotter gunshot detection technology in the heart of the city’s Black community. The...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 12, 20232 min read
Technology Was Key In Solving Idaho Student Killing Case
In the weeks after four University of Idaho students were found slaughtered in a house near campus last November, a growing roster of...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 12, 20232 min read
NYPD To Use More Robot Dogs Despite Criticism
The New York Police Department will use more robots to fight crime, says Mayor Eric Adams. The initiative includes the deployment of a...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 5, 20232 min read
Middle East Nations Fund Fancy Police Surveillance Technology
A brain wave reader that detects lies. Miniaturized cameras inside vape pens and disposable coffee cups. Massive video cameras that zoom...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 23, 20232 min read
Study Says It's Time to Confront Ethics of AI in Policing
Artificial intelligence technologies already play a role in day-to-day police work, and they pose a host of policy questions as their...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 17, 20232 min read
Face the Future: Facial Recognition in Law Enforcement
The rapidly growing use of facial recognition technology in law enforcement raises a host of policy questions over when and how to tap...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 6, 20231 min read
Public Surveillance Cameras Are Increasing; Are They Effective?
Surveillance cameras like the one that captured Memphis officers beating Tyre Nichols have proliferated in the U.S. even as researchers,...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 2, 20232 min read
A Mixed Record On Effectiveness of Police Body Cameras
The escalation of police violence broadly has led some activists to lose faith in body cameras as a meaningful tool, particularly as...
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Crime and Justice News
Jan 20, 20232 min read
ShotSpotter's Human Role: Many Of Devices' Findings Are Overruled
In more than 140 cities, ShotSpotter’s artificial intelligence algorithm and network of microphones evaluate hundreds of thousands of...
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Crime and Justice News
Dec 5, 20222 min read
San Francisco Unlikely Proponent of Weaponized Police Robots
The unabashedly liberal city of San Francisco became the unlikely proponent of weaponized police robots last week after supervisors...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 10, 20222 min read
How Bicycle Owners Use Technology To Track Down Thieves
In Philadelphia, Lajuane Stewart’s bikes have been his economic engine to deliver Grubhub and Uber Eats. He is incensed whenever one gets...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 27, 20222 min read
Senators Seek To Limit Police Use Of Cellphone Tracking Tools
Civil rights lawyers and Democratic senators are seeking legislation to limit law enforcement agencies’ ability to buy cellphone tracking...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 16, 20221 min read
New DOJ Prosecutor Group Will Focus on Cryptocurrency Crime
The Justice Department assigned more than 150 federal prosecutors to bolster law enforcement’s efforts against a rise in crime connected...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 8, 20221 min read
Cold Case Of Murdered Michigan Woman Solved With Genealogy DNA
Federal and state law enforcement officials in Georgia used genealogy DNA to identify both a murder victim and her killer in a 1988...
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