Description of the case
The basic ideas delivered in the case Beyond Street Smarts: Data-Driven Crime Fighting, are the implementation of data-driven law enforcement technologies and the technologies and the benefits derived by the data collected. From identifying persistent prolific offenders, to predictive policing, these are two of many benefits law-enforcement officers have obtained through data collection. Rather than this software implementation being recognized as predicting crime, “it’s more of an assessment of risk—how probable something is” (Marakas & O’Brien, 2013). With this, law-enforcement officers are using these technologies to better fight crime through assessing risks and attempting to model future patterns of criminal
The basic ideas delivered in the case Beyond Street Smarts: Data-Driven Crime Fighting, are the implementation of data-driven law enforcement technologies and the technologies and the benefits derived by the data collected. From identifying persistent prolific offenders, to predictive policing, these are two of many benefits law-enforcement officers have obtained through data collection. Rather than this software implementation being recognized as predicting crime, “it’s more of an assessment of risk—how probable something is” (Marakas & O’Brien, 2013). With this, law-enforcement officers are using these technologies to better fight crime through assessing risks and attempting to model future patterns of criminal