Predicting crime 'cut Medway street violence by 6%'

Date: 
2013-08-14
Publisher: 
BBC

News report on a four-month trial in Medwey (an urban area in Kent, UK, composed of towns Chatham, Gillingham og Rochester, population about 250 000) of PredPol (a program developed in Los Angeles, USA). Kent Police claims use of program to deploy officers to predicted hot-spots reduced Medway street violence in by 6 %. Kent Police Federation also said the results needed proper evaluation.

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