Hotspot prediction
Prediction
This page is public-interest research. An argument grade is not a court finding. A watchdog page describes the device. It is not proof a Nevada agency bought it or turned a feature on. A product description is not a Nevada practice. Agencies are not merged: the City of Las Vegas Department of Public Safety, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, the Clark County School District, the City of Reno, and the Nevada Department of Public Safety stay separate. A hotlist hit is not a confirmed crime. Legal review of this page is unverified.
What it does
Hotspot prediction draws boxes or dots on a map where a model says crime is more likely, and supervisors send patrols to those boxes. EFF calls the usual deployment “cops on the dots.” The dot is a forecast from old reports, not a witness.
Privacy watchdog concerns
- Electronic Frontier Foundation. Predictive Policing. EFF says these programs feed historical crime data into an algorithm that points police at a place or a person, and that the loop can send more police to neighborhoods already heavily policed. EFF calls for bans. This is EFF’s claim. It is not a Nevada contract.
Constitutional issues
Unresolved question
Fourteenth Amendment, Fourth Amendment
Warrant practice not established for a Nevada agency
Hotspot prediction: No Nevada hotspot program is documented. A stop inside a predicted box still needs its own legal basis. This page does not hold that the box itself is a search or that it is lawful. EFF’s criticism is EFF’s claim.
No decision in this library decides hotspot maps.
Statutes attached to read, not findings.
- NRS Chapter 239. Nevada public-records law is the route to ask for contracts, policies, and logs. Citing it is not a finding that a surveillance practice is unlawful.
- 42 U.S.C. § 1983. A civil remedy for a deprivation of federal rights under color of state law. It is not a warrant statute, and it does not itself make a surveillance practice unlawful.
Nevada use
Not documented on this page.
Capability only.
See also: Predictive policing
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