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[Graybeard58]

I like the “bait car” shows. Watching the thieves try to lie their way out when every move they made and every word they said was taped.

[DB]

Actually, with outstanding warrants and drugs you’ve already committed the crime. It is only a matter of being caught.

[2banana]

But the presence of the police officers in the garage that Friday afternoon in July was anything but ordinary: They were directed to the parking structure by a computer program that had predicted that car burglaries were especially likely there that day.

The program is part of an unusual experiment by the Santa Cruz Police Department in predictive policing — deploying officers in places where crimes are likely to occur in the future.

Since when is it unusual for cops to investigate suspicious behavior...????

[Popman]

Captain Malinowski envisions a time when the police will issue crime forecasts the same way the Weather Service issues storm alerts.

Captain Malinowski been smoking the marijuana they bust people for

Predictive policing is a great idea, but lets not get ridiculous where crime are forecasted like weather

Must be a liberal

[Grams A]

Have they been watching the TV show “Numbers”?

[SpaceBar]

Sounds like they were loitering and trespassing, and therefore subject to detainment and questioning by police under probable cause.

[OldNewYork]

‘Predictive policing’, I like it. It’s a nice pseudonym for profiling and being pro-active.

[tlb]

Just pointing out that nobody actually broke into a car. If you roust a sufficient number of random urbanites, some will have cause for arrest. The police could have done the same without a computer program.

I’d have found this experiment more interesting if the police had held back and seen if there was any actual attempts to break and enter into the vehicles.

[Oztrich Boy]

Two women were taken into custody after they were discovered peering into cars

Wasn't that the excuse for the beatings of Richard Long, and Kelly Thomas?