Name: Colombia Policing (Colombia)Area of Application: VigilanciaWhat kind of AI according to the project's official information: Predictive policing / Machine learning
Goals: Anticipate crime in Bogota, predicting when, where, by whom and, eventually, why.
How does it work according to the project's official information: The news came out in April 2019. It is expected that, within 30 months, there will be four mathematical models to describe homicides, crimes against property involving force or the threat of force, personal injury, and the dynamics behind the public perception of security.” “For example, there is data that describes the time and place where a certain criminal event occurs and there is a historical record that can come either from the Police, citizen complaints or reports on social media. There are numerous sources. From there, machine learning techniques can be used to characterize the underlying pattern behind these data, associating them with a specific configuration.”
Possible bias: Stigmatization, discrimination and criminalization of most vulnerable people.
Public Institutions Involved: Secretaría Distrital de Seguridad, Convivencia y Justicia, founded by Fondo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación, del Sistema General de Regalías
Companies/Private Institutions Involved: Applied Math company Quantil and Departamento de Matemáticas de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Related links with further information:
https://www.elespectador.com/noticias/ciencia/el-matematico-que-quiere-predecir-los-crimenes-de-bogota-articulo-867606
https://www.rcnradio.com/recomendado-del-editor/se-pueden-predecir-crimenes-en-bogota-con-inteligencia-artificial
