In late November, the city of Chicago surpassed 600 homicides—the overwhelming majority from handguns—for the second year in a row, and for only the third time since 2003, according to data reported by the Chicago Tribune.
That brings the total to more than 3,400 shootings across the city so far this year.
Sadly, in their efforts to address this seemingly intractable epidemic of gun violence, police officials seem to be placing unfounded faith in technology to solve the problem. The Chicago Police Department has expanded use not just of digital surveillance, for example, but also predictive policing algorithms—even though many experts question the latter’s scientific validity, saying it does not reduce homicides, is inherently biased, and creates a new layer of profiling.
[For more on this story by ROD MCCULLOM, go to https://www.theatlantic.com/te...rms-violence/548279/]
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