{“lastseen”:”2025-09-08T18:31:21″,”description”:”_This week on the Lock and Code podcast\u2026_\\n\\nIn the late 2010s, a group of sheriffs out of Pasco County, Florida, believed they could predict crime. The Sheriff\u2019s Department there had piloted a program called \u201cIntelligence-Led Policing\u201d and the program would allegedly analyze disparate points of data to identify would-be criminals.\\n\\nBut in reality, the program didn\u2019t so much predict crime, as it did make criminals out of everyday people, including children. \\n\\nHigh schoolers\u2019 grades were fed into the Florida program, along with their attendance records and their history with \u201coffice discipline.\u201d And after the \u201cIntelligence-Led Policing\u201d service analyzed the data, it instructed law enforcement officers on who they should pay visit to, who they should check in on, and who they should pester.\\n\\nAs reported by The Tampa Bay Times in 2020:\\n\\n\\u003e \u201cThey swarm homes in the middle of the night, waking families and embarrassing people in front of their neighbors. They write tickets for missing mailbox numbers and overgrown grass, saddling residents with court dates and fines. They come again and again, making arrests for any reason they can.\\n\\u003e \\n\\u003e One former deputy described the directive like this: \u2018Make their lives miserable until they move or sue.\u2019\u201d\\n\\nPredictive policing can sound like science fiction, but it is neither scientific nor is it confined to fiction.\\n\\nPolice and sheriff\u2019s departments across the US have used these systems to plug broad varieties of data into algorithmic models to try and predict not just who may be a criminal, but where crime may take place. Historical crime data, traffic information, and even weather patterns are sometimes offered up to tech platforms to suggest where, when, and how forcefully police units should be deployed.\\n\\nAnd when the police go to those areas, they often find and document minor infractions that, when reported, reinforce the algorithmic analysis that an area is crime-ridden, even if those crimes are, as the Tampa Bay Times investigation found, a teenager smoking a cigarette, or stray trash bags outside a home.\\n\\nToday, on the Lock and Code podcast with host David Ruiz, we speak with Emily Galvin-Almanza, cofounder of Partners for Justice and author of the upcoming book \u201cThe Price of Mercy,\u201d about predictive policing, its impact on communities, and the dangerous outcomes that might arise when police offload their decision-making to data.\\n\\n\\u003e \u201c I am worried about anything that a data broker can sell, they can sell to a police department, who can then feed that into an algorithmic or AI predictive policing system, who can then use that system\u2014based on the purchases of people in \u2018Neighborhood A\u2019\u2014to decide whether to hyper-police \u2018Neighborhood A.\u2019\u201d\\n\\nTune in today to listen to the full conversation.\\n\\n_Show notes and credits:_ \\n \\nIntro Music: \u201cSpellbound\u201d by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) \\nLicensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License \\nhttp:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/ \\nOutro Music: \u201cGood God\u201d by Wowa (unminus.com)\\n\\n* * *\\n\\n**Listen up\u2014Malwarebytes doesn\u2019t just talk cybersecurity, we provide it.**\\n\\nProtect yourself from online attacks that threaten your identity, your files, your system, and your financial well-being with our exclusive offer for Malwarebytes Premium Security for Lock and Code listeners.”,”published”:”2025-09-08T16:15:37″,”modified”:”2025-09-08T16:15:37″,”type”:”malwarebytes”,”title”:”This \u201cinsidious\u201d police tech claims to predict crime (Lock and Code S06E18)”,”source”:””,”references”:””,”id”:”MALWAREBYTES:831C4E1784668FF08EE4DFDE8462C14B”,”bulletinFamily”:”blog”,”cwe”:null,”cvelist”:[],”sourceData”:””,”sourceHref”:””,”cvss”:{“score”:0,”severity”:”NONE”,”vector”:”NONE”,”version”:”NONE”},”cvss2″:{},”cvss3″:{“version”:””,”vectorString”:””,”baseScore”:0,”baseSeverity”:””,”attackVector”:””,”attackComplexity”:””,”privilegesRequired”:””,”userInteraction”:””,”scope”:””,”confidentialityImpact”:””,”integrityImpact”:””,”availabilityImpact”:””,”cvssV3″:{“version”:””,”vectorString”:””,”baseScore”:0,”baseSeverity”:””,”attackVector”:””,”attackComplexity”:””,”privilegesRequired”:””,”userInteraction”:””,”scope”:””,”confidentialityImpact”:””,”integrityImpact”:””,”availabilityImpact”:””}},”href”:”https:\/\/www.malwarebytes.com\/blog\/podcast\/2025\/09\/this-insidious-police-tech-claims-to-predict-crime-lock-and-code-s06e18″,”category_name”:”News”,”post_link”:””,”product”:””,”version”:””,”vendor”:””,”ai_description”:””,”ai_severity”:””,”ai_vendor”:””,”ai_product”:””,”ai_version”:””,”ai_score”:0}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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