CrimeScan – a software package developed and applied in Chicago, \”based on novel machine learning methods for event detection and prediction. This tool enables advance prediction of emerging hot-spots of violent crime with high accuracy at very fine spatial and temporal resolutions, and it was incorporated into the CPD\’s day-to-day policing operations for crime prediction and prevention through targeted patrols\”.
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