Predictive Policing
27th July 2013
THE meanest streets of Kent are to be found in little pink boxes. Or at least they are if you look at them through the crime-prediction software produced by an American company called PredPol. Places in the county east of London where a crime is likely on a given day show up on PredPol’s maps highlighted by pink squares 150 metres on a side. The predictions can be eerily good, according to Mark Johnson, a police analyst: “In the first box I visited we found a carving knife just lying in the road.”
I can predict where crime will occur: Any place that has more than 10% Muslims, as Sweden, Norway, Britain, France, Italy, Spain, and Dearborn have discovered.