Published in parntership with Shadowproof. Journalists in Chicago sued the city’s police department for refusing to release records that may reveal how officers produce computerized predictions on who will likely engage in gun violence. The project is known as the “heat list” or the Strategic Subject List. It depends upon a secret algorithm
Chicago PD Faces Lawsuit Over Secretive ‘Predictive Policing’ Program
“We have learned too many times that a lack of transparency into the Chicago Police Department leads to unconstitutional policing and violations of civil rights.”