mo4ch:>Police dropping 'crime prediction' software – because it's ineffective, not because it's Orwellian | Mo4ch News

Several California police departments have stopped using "predictive policing" software, but not out of concern for civil liberties – it's simply not working to predict crime, some of the tool's pioneers have grudgingly admitted."We didn't get any value out of it," Palo Alto police spokeswoman Janine De la Vega told the LA Times. The department tried PredPol, the predictive policing tool developed by a University of California at Los Angeles professor and the Los Angeles Police Department, for three years, only to find it served up information street patrols already had. "It didn't help us solve crime," De la Vega said.Also on rt.comTASER calls out facial recognition in police body cameras as unethicalPalo Alto police weren't the only ones disappointed. Mountain View, California spent over $60,000 on the software over five years before dropping the program last June. Rio Rancho, New Mexico Police Captain Andrew Rodriguez called it a &q…