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The group’s members and other critics routinely attend commission meetings and decry the department’s growing arsenal of predictive policing software, facial recognition and other technologies.

This obsession with data fueled predictive analytics allows tech companies to anticipate and manipulate consumer behavior.

The Portland, Ore., utility uses AI modeling to determine where and when fires might break out and position fire equipment and personnel accordingly; Pittsburgh similarly employs predictive tech modeling.

This idea of a chronically understaffed force became deeply “ingrained,” he said, and has influenced the department’s “proactive” style of policing and reliance on technologies such as helicopters and predictive policing software.

Although some cities, like Los Angeles, have passed predictive scheduling ordinances, that hasn’t solved the problem of workers not knowing how much income they’ll bring in each month.