Background Predictive policing and crime analytics with a spatiotemporal focus get increasing attention among a variety of scientific communities and are already being …
Predictive policing is sweeping the nation, promising the holy grail of policing-preventing crime before it happens. The technology has far outpaced any legal or political …
Ensemble learning method is a collaborative decision-making mechanism that implements to aggregate the predictions of learned classifiers in order to produce new instances. Early …
This book explores how predictive policing transforms police work. Police departments around the world have started to use data-driven applications to produce crime forecasts …
The Fourth Amendment requires" reasonable suspicion" to stop a suspect. 3 As a general matter, police officers develop this suspicion based on information they know or activities …
Objectives We illustrate how a machine learning algorithm, Random Forests, can provide accurate long-term predictions of crime at micro places relative to other popular techniques …
The future of policing blinks on a computer screen in downtown Los Angeles. 2 On that screen, police have predicted the next area of potential criminal activity. 3 Based on crime …
The study reported here follows the suggestion by Caplan et al.(Justice Q, 2010) that risk terrain modeling (RTM) be developed by doing more work to elaborate, operationalize, and …
This study examined street robbery patterns in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from the years 2009 to 2011 to determine whether the effects of potentially criminogenic places are different …