Tacoma Police Department: Predictive Policing
An example of a predictive policing map from Shreveport, Louisiana
Credit: Shreveport Police Department via RAND
| Agency | Tacoma Police Department |
| Location | Tacoma, WA |
| Technology | Predictive Policing |
| Vendor | Geolitica |
The Tacoma Police Department began using PredPol (now Geolitica) predictive policing software in 2013.
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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