--- title: Tech: How Using Data Could Stop Deadly Police Encounters description: The end of tipping, a vaccine for malaria, a planet much like Earth, gaming to protect the homeland and more. canonical: https://time.com/3971230/data-stop-deadly-police-encounters/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-24T16:01:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:02:19.661Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Using Data Could Stop Deadly Police Encounters og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3971230/data-stop-deadly-police-encounters/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Using Data Could Stop Deadly Police Encounters twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Using Data Could Stop Deadly Police Encounters by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 24, 2015 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jul 24, 2015 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Can police use data to prevent deadly encounters?**](http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-police-use-data-science-to-prevent-deadly-encounters/) By Larry Greenemeier in Scientific American **2\.** [**Malaria kills half a million people every year. A first-ever vaccine is one step closer to reality.**](http://time.com/3970282/malaria-vaccine-approved/) By Alexandra Sifferlin in Time **3\.** [**NASA has discovered an older Earth-like planet. Can it tell us our future?**](http://www.popsci.com/kepler-telescope-discovers-500-new-exoplanet-candidates) By Sarah Fecht in Popular Science **4\.** [**You can help verify the code that runs our nation’s defense — by playing these browser games.**](http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33519194) By Paul Rubens at the BBC **5\.** [**Is it time to say goodbye to tipping?**](http://civileats.com/2015/07/16/goodbye-tipping-hello-living-wage-the-changing-face-of-progressive-restaurants/) By Twilight Greenaway in Civil Eats  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3971230/data-stop-deadly-police-encounters/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3971230/data-stop-deadly-police-encounters/"},"headline":"How Using Data Could Stop Deadly Police Encounters","datePublished":"2015-07-24T16:01:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:02:19.661Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3971230/data-stop-deadly-police-encounters/","keywords":["Innovation","NASA","Video Games","Minimum Wage","Malaria"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3971230/data-stop-deadly-police-encounters/","name":"How Using Data Could Stop Deadly Police Encounters"}}]}] ```