Category: Algorithms

In 2015, the Oakland Police Department (OPD) implemented an algorithm designed by the American firm PredPol to predict future drug crimes. Similar to other predictive

The New York City Department of Education has deployed algorithms in order to process student admissions into New York City’s public high school system. The

SISBEN is a composite welfare index used by the Colombian government to target groups for social programs. The program utilizes survey and financial data to

Social workers are put under enormous pressure to decide whether to devote resources to investigate reports of suspected child abuse. These investigations could ultimately result

In 2009 Catalan prisons began using an algorithmic tool to evaluate the risk of violent recidivism (or reoffense of a violent crime after release) for

VeriPol was created by an international team of researchers in order to help police identify fraudulent reports. The system uses natural language processing and machine

In 2016 police forces on the Belgian coast began to apply predictive policing software to their operations, echoing a larger movement and investment within the

The Danish government had plans to create an automated system called ‘Gladsaxe’ that would track the status of vulnerable children and preemptively put them under

Predictive policing systems have become widespread across the United States and are gaining popularity in the United Kingdom. The police force in the city of

Consulting companies in the United States have begun selling proprietary algorithms to universities in order to help them to target and recruit the most promising