St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office: Predictive Policing
![A map of Seattle with red boxes indicated where burglaries may occur.](https://atlasofsurveillance.org/files/technologies/15/predictive_policing_600_x_600.png)
An example of the PredPol crime prediction interface.
Credit: Seattle Police Department
Agency | St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office |
Location | Leonardtown, MD |
Technology | Predictive Policing |
Vendor | PredPol |
St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office purchased PredPol predictive police technology in 2020.
Links
News article (Southern Maryland News)
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.
![A map of Seattle with red boxes indicated where burglaries may occur.](https://atlasofsurveillance.org/files/technologies/15/predictive_policing_600_x_600.png)
An example of the PredPol crime prediction interface.
Credit: Seattle Police Department