Predictive Policing Tools

Advances in artificial intelligence have allowed for many different organizations to more accurately predict human behaviour. These predictive tools are being used by policing agencies around the world. While Canada may not be using these tools to predict crime as often as other countries, it is important to remember that these new predictive tools could violate human rights or further exacerbate the over-representation of certain groups in the Court system.

Canadian police using controversial ‘predictive policing’ tools, report finds