Not only the weather, and crime will now predicted. The Ministry of Interior in NRW want to test from next year and the software used in practice.
The police in North Rhine-Westphalia will test computer programs for crime predictions. Early next year will launch a project led by the Office of Criminal Investigation, said the NRW Ministry of the Interior to with a request of the Christian Democrat Gregory Golland [1] . Until now, there was talk that such a project would be reviewed; specify the dates did not exist.
The first results were expected in the second half. The police headquarters in Duisburg and Cologne were involved in the testing phase, from October 2015 to September 2016 to run the local practice phases. A successful test phase they would also use the software in everyday police work.
“Predictive Policing” is the new method. Programs are, for example, can predict intrusions. For thousands have dips into the database as the forecasting software “Precobs” (“Pre Crime Observation System”) are entered. Similar tests are running in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg.
According to Bavarian Interior Ministry, the software should have already proved [2] . In Zurich should be decreased by 14 percent with the program for the slowdown, the software is now running in normal operation there. More than 80 percent of forecasts were there true.
When calculated for an area of acute risk of burglary, can be used where more targeted policemen. Thus, the behavior pattern to be recognized by professional burglars and used for predictions. Experience has shown that offenders return to crime scenes back in which they are familiar and already had success. Relationship or opportunity deeds, however, fall through the cracks. The NRW Ministry of Interior designated the effectiveness of such software, however, not been sufficiently established as. (Using material from dpa) / ( axk [ 3] )
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