Predictive Policing and Risk Scoring
Predictive policing covers two distinct things: place-based forecasting that directs patrols to predicted hotspots, and person-based risk scoring that assigns individuals a likelihood of offending or reoffending. Both have been the subject of sustained academic and practitioner debate over feedback loops, where historic arrest data shapes future deployment and can appear to confirm its own predictions.
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