With a few clicks of the keyboard, years of crime data and a mathematical algorithm, police are working to predict crime before it happens.
"So what it does, it allows our officers, gives them an edge that they hadn't had in the past to know where the best place is to be when they have the time to patrol those areas," said Chief Mark Holtzman, Hagerstown Police Department.
It's an intelligence based software called PredPol that uses of years of crime analysis, from the type of crime, where it happened and what time it happened, to predict where similar crimes could occur throughout the city.
This is how PredPol works. Based on the math and science, police said if officers spend about 15 minutes every two hours during their 12 hour shift in one of three prediction boxes that should help reduce crime and even prevent it.
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5 comments:
Well, they defiantly need something with some intelligence in Salisbury!
They need to use it on themselves also.
The thought police will tell you what your crime is.
NOW you will be arrested like the movie minority report before you even do or think of anything...
But the algorithm said so, so it must be...
and they still wouldn't find the culprits
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