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Seeing into the future once belonged only to fortune tellers, TV weather forecasters, and science fiction writers. In 2005, the Los Angeles Police Department wanted to try it for themselves and engaged a group of PhD scientists—two mathematicians, an anthropologist, and a criminologist—to figure out what criminals are going to do before they get started.
Testing predictive policing software developed by the company PredPol, the Los Angeles Police Department and Santa Cruz Police Department experienced significant reductions in targeted crime types. The software provides 500 foot by 500 foot hot spot locations for officers to patrol. As officers were deployed to these areas, crime went down.