New York Police Department: Predictive Policing
An example of a predictive policing map from Shreveport, Louisiana
Credit: Shreveport Police Department via RAND
| Agency | New York Police Department |
| Location | New York City, NY |
| Technology | Predictive Policing |
| Vendor |
According to the Brennan Center for Justice: "The NYPD uses its own proprietary system that tries to locate hotspots for a particular crime based on an unknown number and type of data inputs."
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Nonprofit report (Brennan Center for Justice)
Public records (Brennan Center for Justice)
Public records (Brennan Center for Justice)
More about this technology
Predictive policing is software used by law enforcement to select neighborhoods or blocks where they should focus resources or to identify individuals for investigation. Law enforcement feed records and data—such as police stops or calls for service—into the algorithms, which vendors say can predict where crime is likely to occur.
An example of a predictive policing map from Shreveport, Louisiana
Credit: Shreveport Police Department via RAND