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Failures of Predictive Policing: Chicago’s ShotSpotter Program

Feb. 20, 2024—By Lauren Szwarc After facing much criticism, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has finally fulfilled his campaign promise to cancel the city’s contract with ShotSpotter.[1] The ShotSpotter program is a recent technological development in predictive policing that was adopted by the city under Mayor Rahm Emanuel in 2018.[2] The ShotSpotter program functions by placing microphones and...

The Case for Establishing a Collective Perspective to Address the Harms of Platform Personalization

Jul. 28, 2023—Ayelet Gordon-Tapiero, Alexandra Wood, & Katrina Ligett | 25 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 635 (2023). Personalization on digital platforms drives a broad range of harms, including misinformation, manipulation, social polarization, subversion of autonomy, and discrimination. In recent years, policy makers, civil society advocates, and researchers have proposed a wide range of interventions to...