The Bad Apple Computer Patrol

August, 1995

How to Police Wayward Cops. The headline in the New Scientist caught our attention immediately. Why was an English science magazine covering the internal affairs of a police department?The story proved fascinating. The Chicago police department had "enlisted the help of artificial intelligence to pinpoint potential rotten apples on the force." Something called a neural network system had "already identified 91 officers whose behavior suggests that they may become a liability to th...