http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/02/27/new-police-software-can-predict-where-crimes-will-likely-occur-in-seattle Comments On: New Police Software Can Predict Where Crimes Will Likely Occur in Seattle by Cienna Madrid en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Tue, 21 May 2013 17:30:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss
That was an early criticism of hot-spot policing, but in places where there's enough data to analyze, it seems it doesn't work that way: when crime has gone down in hot spots, it generally hasn't popped up elsewhere (NYC is the pioneer in this sort of stuff, software-based and otherwise).

Why it doesn't work the way one might think it would is still a complete mystery, but there are theories; some think criminals, like most people, don't stray much from a set routine in a small physical area from day to day; others think that some high-crime areas develop a sort of geographically-defined permissive social space. But without data, these are just-so stories; no-one knows yet why the thing works the way it seems to.
Posted by robotslave]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:03:39 -0800 The Stranger
Just look at how impossible it has become to convict someone without dash cam video of the person commiting a crime.

y'all don't trust your popo enough no mo...
Posted by GeneStoner]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:59:25 -0800 The Stranger Posted by TechBear]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:09:36 -0800 The Stranger Posted by SeattleD]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:54:18 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Fnarf]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:41:49 -0800 The Stranger
Sure, head to the Rainier Valley/Skyway.
Posted by Racist Software?]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:07:06 -0800 The Stranger Posted by skeptic420]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:58:42 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Reader01]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:55:47 -0800 The Stranger What happens when the crooks get an Android app that can tell them where all the cop cars are...


Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:38:26 -0800 The Stranger Posted by treacle]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:38:03 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Chris Jury]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:16:23 -0800 The Stranger Posted by wxPDX]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:03:11 -0800 The Stranger
The same people, doing the same shit, at the same place, every fucking day for years. But the cops need a computer program to tell them that?
Posted by Rotten666]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:49:26 -0800 The Stranger Posted by RebR]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:39:05 -0800 The Stranger Posted by sasha]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:33:06 -0800 The Stranger Posted by tim koch]]> Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:23:55 -0800 The Stranger