“The police department in Santa Cruz, California, has begun an experiment that uses a mathematical algorithm to predict when and where certain crimes will be committed, and puts police on the scene before they happen. So far police have arrested five people using this technique of “predictive policing” and the rates of certain categories of crimes in the city have dropped significantly, perhaps as a result. The program has correctly predicted 40 percent of the crimes it was designed to monitor.”
Santa Cruz Cops Experiment With ‘Predictive Policing’ | TPM Idea Lab
If they’d just let us have the cool UI that they have for interacting with the precogs, that’d be fine.
(via warrenellis)
