2012年7月17日星期二
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
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In some way PredPol does sound like a strategy for fighting crime that is not particularly new. That is, we already know statistically where certain crimes are most likely to occur. And communities (including regions and countries) relegate (or fail to relegate) police protection to those areas based largely on socioeconomics, which is to say, rich people get a lot better police protection than poor people around the world.
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