Crime Prevention

AI is being deployed across courts, police departments, and corrections systems. Without the right guardrails, it could amplify existing biases. But, with care and attention, there are opportunities to improve the experience of people within these same...

How can data and analytics be used to enhance city operations? What kinds of operations-enhancing questions have cities asked and answered with data and analytics? The catalog below is an ongoing, regularly-updated resource for those interested in knowing...

July 27, 2022 Public Safety In this episode Professor Stephen Goldsmith and Hilary Rau, Vice President of Policy and Community Engagement at the Center for Policing Equity, discuss what public safety means, how and why it's being redefined, and the role...

In February 2021, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced that no officers would be charged in the death of Daniel Prude, a Black man handcuffed, hooded, and pinned to the ground while experiencing a severe mental health crisis in March 2020...

This story is not going to start with a sensationalized murder or a graphic account of an Indigenous woman’s death. Native* communities have sustained enough trauma without having their murdered sisters and wives and friends paraded to readers for the...

August 31, 2018 Crime Prevention INTRODUCTION As data-driven algorithms have come to play an increasingly important role in the ways governments make decisions, concern over what goes into these algorithms and what comes out has become more urgent. Using...

July 9, 2018 Data Visualization According to the Chapman University Survey of American Fears, Americans in 2017 were, for the third year in a row, more afraid of “Corrupt Government Officials” than anything else. I’ll admit that I had difficulty assessing...

Introduction Social media posts are full of data that, when made accessible to governments, can make interventions quicker, more effective, and more representative. From pictures of emergency conditions to posts about crimes in progress, users constantly...

April 3, 2018 Predictive Analytics This article originally appeared on CityLab.com. Which public school will your child attend? How severe a sentence will you receive in the criminal justice system? Will you earn tenure as a teacher? In many cities, a new...

April 24, 2017 Public Safety Ensuring public safety for residents is one of the critical responsibilities of municipal governments. Cities have begun leveraging the capabilities of data and analytics to improve policing, fire safety, emergency response...