Police to use tech that predicts crimes

     Before you read this story, you must have seen some cool detective films. In the films, maybe the police could use many fantastic hi-tech detection means which were just some imagine for future. But in reality, there is not so many cool hi-tech for detection. In this story, the author introduced a new technology for police to forecast some possible criminals which is not in a detective film but in reality.

     This article reported that a new detection technology names PredPol has been developed by two mathematicians, an anthropologist, and a criminologist in California. We could easy to understand that PredPol is a new technology which was developed by using criminal psychology, sociology, probability and statistics to infer the time and location where the next crime event would take place. In the test for the past year, the city has seen a 19% reduction in burglaries. It seems very effective and as the city of Santa Cruz increased in a 30% the number of crimes and had a 20% decrease in police staff, using PredPol is a good way to solve the problem of police decreasing. But as some reason of financial budget and some problems of bureaucratic interpersonal relationship, it might not be applied right now. However, their research is still continuing.

     In my point of view, PredPol is a very cool and effective technology. To compare with solve cases after the crime took place, I think it is better to infer the future possible crimes and to avoid it. On one hand, it could save many innocent people from murders and damages. On another hand, it could help find what kind of mind problems or reasons of would-be criminals. It is not only to protect innocent people but also to help the people who are refused of maybe poverty, enmity, emotional problems etc. to leave their mind barrier and far away from crimes. As the reasons above, I think to forecast crimes would be more valid to decrease crimes from the foundation of crimes than to detect a big case.

     In a conclusion, I hope PredPol could be developed more applicable and to be used in the near future but not just an image in the cool detection movies. Expect new advancement of PredPol.    

Nerea Rial “Police to use tech that predicts crimes.” Neurope (online). 10, July, 2012. 15, July 15, 2012.

Connect:http://www.neurope.eu/article/police-use-tech-predicts-crimes

 

eCall system to be on European cars by 2015

  As we all know, there has been amount of people died of car accidents. Some people would be dead on the spot, but there were also a lot of people died of not timely rescue.

In order to decrease the number of death who would not dead on the spot of the accidents in future, the European Parliament decided to fit the eCall system on the European new cars from 2015.

  This story reported that from 2015, all the new cars would be fitted with the eCall system in Europe. This system is an emergency telephone system which would telephone to the 112 public emergency number when a car met a big accident. This system would to be start when the airbag was bounced off after an accident. It will help police to confirm the location and the time of the accident for people can arrive to the site on the first time. And of course, this system would not be used while the car is not in an accident for protecting people's private. And it is also report the cost of each car would only increase less than 100Euros, and could save 2,500 lives every year in the future of Europe.

  In my point of view, it is a good choice for cars to fit this kind of system. Though it is only a piece of news of Europe, I hope the system would also be used in China. In China, there were lots of people died of some accidents, which were caused by absconding people or tourist buses' crashed. Sometimes they were not dead immediately, but for they were not found promptly. And especially the accidents which happened in some no-one mountain areas, there were lots of people dropped in the deep valley and died of helpless. They were just falling in unconsciousness but did not die at the moment of the accident.

  But on another hand, for China have a big area and a large population, and also consider with the economic conditions of the citizens, it needs a long time to achieve. And instead of the eCall system, China maybe had done some tiny systems by some personal developments. Maybe Chinese people have already made an iphone application as a reliable emergency system.

  That is all my opinion about this story, and I expect the system could be spread around the world.

 

 

connect:http://www.neurope.eu/article/ecall-system-be-european-cars-2015

Nerea Rial "eCall system to be on European cars by 2015." New Erope(online).04 July 2012. 06 July 2012.