Predictive analytics for police not “Minority Report”… yet

Law enforcement agencies are testing the use of risk terrain modeling to predict and reduce crime, the approach takes an area and blends its history of crime with data on local behavioral and physical characteristics to create a map of locations with the greatest crime risk. Whereas traditional hot-spotting approach focuses mainly on the historical concentration of crime, risk terrain modeling examines the factors that contribute to this concentration and helps police officers predict where new hot spots could arise.  Click this link http://www.govtech.com/public-safety/Predicting-Crime-Using-Analytics-and-Big-Data.html to view the article on govtech.com.