Posted on 07/01/2012 1:54:48 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Los Angeles police are aiming to beat suspects to the scene of a crime by using computers to predict where trouble might occur.
The Los Angeles Police Department is the largest agency to embrace an experiment known as “predictive policing,” which crunches data to determine where to send officers to thwart would-be thieves and burglars. Time Magazine called it one of the best inventions of 2011.
Early successes could serve as a model for other cash-strapped law enforcement agencies, but some legal observers are concerned it could lead to unlawful stops and searches that violate Fourth Amendment protections.
In the San Fernando Valley, where the program was launched late last year, officers are seeing double-digit drops in burglaries and other property crimes. The program has turned enough in-house skeptics into believers that there are plans to roll it out citywide by next summer.
“We have prevented hundreds and hundreds of people coming home and seeing their homes robbed,” said police Capt. Sean Malinowski.
Crime mapping has long been a tool used to determine where the bad guys lurk. The idea has evolved from colored pins placed on a map to identifying “hot spots” via a computer database based on past crimes and possible patterns.
Over the past decade, many large police departments, including Los Angeles and New York City, have used CompStat, a system that tracks crime figures and enables police to send extra officers to trouble spots.
The new program used by LAPD and police in the Northern California city of Santa Cruz is more timely and precise, proponents said. Built on the same model for predicting aftershocks following an earthquake, the software promises to show officers what might be coming based on simple, constantly calibrated data — location, time and type of crime.
The software generates prediction boxes — as small as 500 square feet — on a patrol map. When officers have spare time, they are told to “go in the box.”
Sounds like they may be ACLU types.
So let me see if I’ve got this right... To the liberal mind, “predictive policing” is just fine, a great use of our limited resources. However, “profiling” is bad, using statistics to better make use of limited resources is wrong. WTF?
I predict attempts to steal trillions, coming from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington DC. . .
Here’s a prediction for La Raza-ass clown LAPD Chief Charlie Beck: L.A. will continue to be overrun by illegal aliens (welcomed by you and your corruptocrat Mayor) - until it is utterly destroyed.
‘Predictive Policing’
Is that anything like Pre-Crime?
Mel
LOL.
The liberal mind.
Predictive-policing and racial-profiling are jailing the same people.
Blacks commit 46% of all crimes nationwide...while being only about 12% of the population.
This stat ties liberals in knots....it explains why such a high percentage of the prison population is Black and can't be blamed on discrimination as they desire to do.
This methodology will soon be declared to be illegal racial profiling.
That's easy. Martin Luther and Ceaser Chavez Blvd's.
GIGO, since when do government statisticians give you something besides the politically correct answer?
“That’s easy. Martin Luther and Ceaser Chavez Blvd’s.”
Yep, look no further than where “Obama’s Sons” hang out.
Sounds like the premise for THE MINORITY REPORT! Talk about life imitating art.
Sounds like the premise for THE MINORITY REPORT! Talk about life imitating art.
I would expand that to include any street that starts out with ‘Reverend’ or ‘Doctor’.
Sorry about the double post. It was not intentional.
Not a bad idea, actually.
What a novel idea! Sending more police to high crime areas...brilliant.
Unions!
Liberal Unions- start the Thought Police.
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