The Chicago Police Department crafts a scientifically-backed, cutting-edge predictive policing tool to identify folks caught up in the cycle of gun violence on Chicago’s streets. It’s meant to save lives, but will it do more harm than good?From Wondery and Vespucci, comes Heat List, a story of one city’s 21st-century effort to break its cycle of violence and one family’s journey to find a way out of that violence once and for all.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Hoping to counter an alarmingly high number of murders and gun violence — the Chicago Police Department tries something that seems straight out of science fiction: they build an algorithm to predict who is most likely to be involved in a shooting, dubbed the "Heat List." The cops say it’s meant to curb violence and save lives. But when two brothers, Ryan and Shaquon Thomas, find themselves on this list, it begs the question: can the "Heat List" help the Thomas brothers before it’s too late…or will it bring even more heat?
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