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“Predictive Policing”

by Josh Marshall
09.13.11 | 5:11 am

It’s not quite Minority Report but the Santa Cruz PD has begun experimenting with complex algorithms to predict when and where crimes will occur and have police there ready to catch the bad guys. They call it “predictive policing.”

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