28 July 2010

Police trialling crime software

According to the Guardian newspaper, two Police forces in the UK are trialling a system called Crush - Criminal Reduction Utilising Statistical History which helps to identify where crimes are mostly likely to happen. It has been likened to the pre-crime units used in the film Minority Report.


Crush, developed by IBM, evaluates patterns of previous incidents and can help police to determine potential hot-spots and deploy resources to that area.

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