Stuttgart is testing new software: number of burglaries has halved – Stuttgarter Nachrichten

 
 

By Rainer Wehaus "2016-04-22 06:00"> 22nd April 2016 – 06:00

 
 
 
 
 

 Since in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe vulnerable quarters are stronger illuminated, avoiding burglars these areas Photo: AP
 

The number of burglaries is reduced in Baden -Wuerttemberg continue – at least in the areas where a new forecasting software for testing purposes in use. In Stuttgart, there is a significant drop in trend. Whether it is due to the new software?

 
 
 

Stuttgart – The number of burglaries is in Stuttgart on the wane. The police recorded in the first three months of this year, according to a spokesman for a decline of burglaries around 50 percent.

Already in 2015 was the number of burglaries decreased in the capital compared to last year by 29 percent. Previously, she had risen for years. Whether the recent decline with a new forecasting software related, which is tested by the Stuttgart police since November, is unclear. Even before the system was a decrease

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In the new software the police computer with details about committed burglaries is fed. If professionals have been at work, all experience is high according to the likelihood that they strike in the same neighborhood in the days that followed again. The computer suggests in such cases alarm, the police can then more keep an eye on the risk area. The new software will be tested until the end of April in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe, where the numbers are also decreased further in the first quarter, rising by a quarter. Then, the Max Planck Institute for Criminal Law in Freiburg evaluates the experience. The result is expected for the beginning of August, at least as long as the software will continue to operate. It was developed by the Institute for pattern-based forecasting technique in Oberhausen and costs royalties. For the entire test taxpayers to pay around EUR 220 000

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As the development nationwide is not as positive as in Stuttgart, the German government wants to encourage more private precautions against burglary: In future there will be the development bank KfW also subsidies for investments under 2000 euros. This was agreed, the groups of the CDU and SPD. From when this is exactly is still unclear

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