US police use machine learning to curb their own violence

US police use machine learning to curb their own violence

None of their colleagues may have noticed, but a computer has. By churning through the police's own staff records, it has caught signs that an officer is at high risk of initiating an "adverse event" - racial profiling or, worse, an unwarranted shooting.

None of their colleagues may have noticed, but a computer has. By churning through the police's own staff records, it has caught signs that an officer is at high risk of initiating an "adverse event" - racial profiling or, worse, an unwarranted shooting.