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Predictive Policing Theory, Andrew Guthrie Ferguson Jul 2019

Predictive Policing Theory, Andrew Guthrie Ferguson

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Predictive policing is changing law enforcement. New place-based predictive analytic technologies allow police to predict where and when a crime might occur. Data-driven insights have been operationalized into concrete decisions about police priorities and resource allocation. In the last few years, place-based predictive policing has spread quickly across the nation, offering police administrators the ability to identify higher crime locations, to restructure patrol routes, and to develop crime suppression strategies based on the new data.

This chapter suggests that the debate about technology is better thought about as a choice of policing theory. In other words, when purchasing a particular …


The Fda And The Rise Of The Empowered Patient, Lewis Grossman Jan 2015

The Fda And The Rise Of The Empowered Patient, Lewis Grossman

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