UCLA mathematicians devise an algorithm based on data from the Los Angeles Police Department for the Hollenbeck area east of downtown Joel Rubin, Los Angeles Times, October 31, 2011
A team of UCLA researchers has delved again into the world of crime fighting, this time developing a computer program capable of pointing police to potential suspects when feuds between rival gangs erupt into violence. The work is the latest contribution in the fast-emerging field of predictive policing — a broad area of study rooted in the notion that it is possible, through sophisticated computer analysis of information about previous crimes, to predict where and when crimes will occur or, in this case, to calculate the probability a certain gang committed a crime.
Some of the most ambitious work is being done at UCLA, where researchers are concentrating largely on the ways criminals behave in urban settings…
Full story at http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ucla-gang-computer-20111101,0,563462.story
If only Sgt. Friday had known:
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