West Springfield Police Department: Predictive Policing
An example of a predictive policing map from Shreveport, Louisiana
Credit: Shreveport Police Department via RAND
| Agency | West Springfield Police Department |
| Location | West Springfield, MA |
| Technology | Predictive Policing |
| Vendor | Geolitica |
According to reporting from The Markup, the West Springfield Town Police Department used PredPol (now Geolitica) between 02/23/18 and 11/30/19.
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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