Predictive Profiling in Chicago
I have been very busy (and will probably continued to be), so the blog won’t be updated as often. But I will try to keep up on all the major stories related to smart cameras and the Chicago surveillance system.
CBS News ran a story that provides a basic overview of the Chicago camera network.
The CPD is using predictive profiling as a new technique, from the Sun-Times and Government Technology:
The Chicago Police Department is working with the Illinois Institute of Technology and the Rand Corp. on an innovative project that will help pinpoint hot spots of criminal activity. The process — called predictive analytics — is to analyze every violent incident and gang interaction with police to extrapolate and identify future problems. The numbers will be analyzed by experts at ITT. . . . Weis explained how the information pinpoints the time of day and location of violent crimes. In the past, gang data were compiled on a yearly basis, Weis said. Now any police interaction with a gang member will be fed into the system for a “real time, ongoing” account of where gangs operate.
For a different angle, the folks at Second City Cop have also weighed in on this technique.
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