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Predictive policing

Prediction

Last reviewed: 2026-10-27Legal review: unverifiedCapability or investigative question
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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

Predictive policing feeds past crime reports, and sometimes other data, into a model that outputs a place or a person for police to watch. EFF says the loop can send more officers to neighborhoods that were already heavily policed, and that the model does not actually see the future. A hotspot map and a person-based score are the next cards. This card is the general practice.

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, First Amendment

Warrant practice not established for a Nevada agency

Predictive policing: No Nevada predictive-policing contract is documented. EFF’s demand for a ban is EFF’s position, not a holding. No case in this library decides the software. Unequal patrols would raise a Fourteenth Amendment question only with a record of how the model was used. That record is absent.

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. Nevada Constitution art. 1, § 18 is not attached, because no search is shown.

See also: Crime-pattern analytics; Hotspot prediction; Risk scoring

Next record

Predictive policing: Do not describe a Nevada model from a national product name.

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