Linden Police Department: Predictive Policing
An example of a predictive policing map from Shreveport, Louisiana
Credit: Shreveport Police Department via RAND
| Agency | Linden Police Department |
| Location | Linden, NJ |
| Technology | Predictive Policing |
| Vendor | CivicScape |
The Linden Police Department has used CivicScape, a predictive policing software, since 2017.
Links
News article (Connecticut College Magazine)
Public records (MuckRock)
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