Vorhersagen und Entscheiden: Predictive Policing in Polizeiorganisationen

In the course of digitalisation, predictive algorithms are used in many organisations. The article analyses the effects of this algorithmisation on decisions in the police taking the example of predictive policing. Under the term predictive policing, police organisations are increasingly using algorithms to forecast and prevent criminal behaviour. Based on the differentiation of two variants of predictive policing software, which are characterised by a different degree of opacity for their users, the article examines the effects of these algorithms on central decision premises of police organisations: programmes, communication channels and persons. The analysis enables an outlook on the consequences of the future development of predictive software for the police as an organisation, which we present in the conclusion