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Law Enforcement Use of Predictive Policing Approaches: A Workshop

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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will convene a planning committee to conduct a two-day public workshop on law enforcement use of predictive policing strategies.

Description

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will convene a planning committee to conduct a two-day public workshop on law enforcement use of person-based and place-based predictive policing strategies.
It will explore:
- How are person-based and place-based predictive policing strategies being used by law enforcement across federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial actors?
- How reliable and accurate are these methods in practice?
- What are the relevant legal considerations and precedents that accompany these new technologies?
- What are the disparate impact concerns raised by those technologies or their manner of use?
- What considerations (e.g., accuracy of these technologies, including underlying issues of sensitivity and specificity; privacy, civil rights, civil liberties; and disparate impact) need to be assessed in implementing these technologies by law enforcement?
- What are institutional considerations for operations and procedures to ensure that these technologies are being used effectively and equitably?
After the workshop, a proceedings of a workshop and a proceedings of a workshop in brief (PIB) summarizing the presentations and discussions will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.

Contributors

Committee

Chair

Member

Member

Member

Member

Member

Sponsors

National Institute of Justice

Staff

Amanda Grigg

Lead

Emily Backes

Lead

Abigail Allen

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