@inbook{10.7249/j.ctt14bs27t.8, ISBN = {9780833086914}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7249/j.ctt14bs27t.8}, abstract = {Predictive policingis the use of statistical models to anticipate increased risks of crime, followed by interventions to prevent those risks from being realized. The process of anticipating where crimes will occur and placing police officers in those areas has been deemed by some as the new future of policing.¹ Since the early 2000s, the complexity of the statistical models to predict changes in crime rates has grown, but there is limited evidence on whether policing interventions informed by predictions have any effect on crime when compared with other policing strategies.In 2012, the Shreveport Police Department (SPD) in Louisiana,²}, bookauthor = {Priscillia Hunt and Jessica Saunders and John S. Hollywood}, booktitle = {Evaluation of the Shreveport Predictive Policing Experiment}, pages = {1--6}, publisher = {RAND Corporation}, title = {Introduction}, year = {2014} }