Police Use Analytics to Deploy Officers

摘要

Most Applications of predictive analytics are in the private sector, but police in Memphis are getting big results from using the technology to fight crime.rnSeveral years ago, police there began developing a program called Blue CRUSH with assistance from the University of Memphis' criminology department.rnIt uses predictive analytics software from IBM's SPSS division to crunch information about what types of crimes are occurring, and where and when they're happening. Police use the resulting models to dispatch more resources to the neighborhoods that appear to need the most help.