Security Theater Seminar, Sun 29/Apr/2012 at 14:00 - Do cops always arrest the same people?
Yossef Oren
Electrical Engineering Labs Building (חשמל מעבדות), Room 146 Join us virtually!
Sunday, April 29, 2:00pm
Racial Profiling Analysis in a Post-Beer Summit World
Abstract: This talk presents an analysis of effective policing practices and policies with special focus on racial profiling. The title of the talk is a reference to the 2009 incident between a Cambridge police department officer and a prominent African-American college professor that was escalated to a national discussion on policing and racial profiling. Ridgeway has worked with dozens of law enforcement agencies, local police, federal agencies, and non-U.S. police forces on predictive policing, recruiting, gun violence, community relations, use of force, racial profiling, and other key policing issues. He will examine some of of his methods in this talk.
Speaker Bio: Greg Ridgeway is the Director of the RAND Safety & Justice Program, and Director of the RAND Center on Quality Policing. Ridgeway received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in statistics from the University of Washington, Seattle; and a B.S. in statistics from the California Polytechnic State University. Prior to joining RAND Dr. Ridgeway worked at Microsoft Research, receiving seven patents for developed methods. He has published studies on some of the largest police departments in the United States, including Los Angeles, New York City, and San Diego.
Recorded at Tech Talks@Google, Mountain View CA USA, May 25, 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oot0BOaQTZI