Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
In 2002, Steven Spielberg’s “Minority Report,” a film starring Tom Cruise, was released to critical acclaim. In it, the police force of the future uses a trio of psychics to predict crimes, and the police use this information as evidence to arrest the “would-be” perpetrators before they’re able to go through with it. While we’re a long way off from using psychics to predict crimes, the LAPD has been hard at work shifting their efforts from the traditional “reactive” method to a more “proactive” form of crime-fighting. Dubbed “predictive policing,” the LAPD has been using data they gather from separate sources and analyzing it to anticipate when and where crimes will happen. Typically, officers will respond once a crime has been reported, gather information and begin an investigation. With this new method of gathering information, police can more effectively respond to the crimes when, and sometimes before, they occur. The technology required to collect and analyze the data is still new, though police forces across the country have been including the technology in their day-to-day policing with promising results. The champion of this new and controversial method of policing is none other than New York Police Commissioner, William Bratton. If the name […]
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