Covid-19 Proves It’s Time to Abolish ‘Predictive’ Policing Algorithms

AS SUMMER COMES to a close, local governments are returning to their council chambers and facing massive pressures. Municipal budgets are losing hundreds of millions in revenue in the wake of coronavirus. Meanwhile, a generational uprising is pushing our government to divest from militarized, racist policing, calling instead for the resources that our neighborhoods have been starved of for generations—the resources that actually increase safety.