If we ever dreamed that the film Minority Report come true, the PredPol company has released a software with positive results.
The news is released Forbes, who speaks in software produced by PredPol and that is already being used by police in Los Angeles since 2012. But at the beginning there were many septic, the truth of the results is different. According to the company, the reductions in crime in the areas where your system acts reach the double digits.
According to the reported results, there is a 20% annual in Los Angeles, and that in the first four months in the city there was a reduction of 14% of the crimes. In Atlanta there is a reduction of 19% after the introduction of the program throughout the city since November 2013.
To predict the areas where crimes may occur, the program works with probabilities, based on previous crimes, being dependent on the police reports entering the platform. The result of this algorithm is the areas where there is greater likelihood of crimes, which gives a strong clue where the police must be present.
The program costs between $ 10,000 and $ 150,000, depending on the population for which it is intended. The program is already used by almost 60 US police departments.
These figures are published by the company, however further studies are needed to see if these programs are actually the cause of reducing crimes.
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