James Cleverly says the Metropolitan Police need New York style Predictive Crime Mapping

Posted by GLA Conservatives in Blog   Share2013

Jan
16

At the Police and Crime Plenary, Assembly Member James Cleverly will call on Boris Johnson to radically improve the Met’s intelligence system and introduce predictive crime mapping* in London.

Commenting, James Cleverly AM said,

“Money needs to be targeted at systems that can achieve more for less. Predictive crime mapping is a computer programme which allows police to turn up at an event and prevent a crime before it even happens. It’s welcomed by civil liberties groups as a successful, non-intrusive form of intelligence. And it will mean that we are one step ahead of criminals.

“There is a lot of evidence from the USA that, where predictive crime mapping has been used, crime can be significantly cut. These kinds of results cannot be ignored; so I am calling on the Mayor to test out this system in London.”

Notes:
* IT software that tries to determine where crimes will occur in different parts of a city. The computer program aggregates huge amounts of information from past and present crime records to real-time data from patrols. Then dots map with zones where offence is likely to occur, detailing possible nature of future