Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Crime Prediction

This seems something out of a know Hollywood movie, where people where arrested for crimes that they didn't "Yet" commit. Well, we are not far from it!

There is a software developed by Richard Berk, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the software is already used in Baltimore and Philadelphia to predict which individuals on probation or parole are most likely to murder and to be murdered.

In his latest version, the one being implemented in D.C., Berk goes even further, identifying the individuals most likely to commit crimes other than murder.

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