Bratton Pushes Predictive Policing: Nothing To Fear?
By Zach Gottlieb June 14, 2010 | 6:49 pm | Categories: Future Shock, WiredBiz
NEW YORK — It may have led to all kinds of problems in Minority Report, but former police chief and commissioner William Bratton says predictive policing has an important role to play in the art of keeping the peace and that — at least as applied in the United States — is nothing to fear.
Bratton, former Commissioner of the New York Police Department and Chief of the Los Angeles, helped New York City fully adopt CompStat, the real-time police intelligence tracking system during his tenure in the mid-1990’s. Now as chairman of Altegrity Risk International, he’s expanding these techniques and technologies to include business and government intelligence. The efforts of companies like ARI, he thinks will help local and national governments enter an era of predictive policing.
We try to see how much you can do in a democratic society that is allowed. A lot is allowed.
Soon, police officers will be able to enter information from a computer in their car and send it into headquarters, allowing detectives get to work before even arriving on the scene. “In the next five to ten years, we will be like a doctor, working with increasing diagnostic skills,” Bratton told the audience at Tuesday’s 2010 Wired Business Conference. “That is the next era
. In fact, it’s the era we want our international intelligence service to be very much engaged in.”
The idea is to find criminals before the commit crimes, preventing certain crimes altogether.
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