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Reading police chief William Heim had to figure out how to get the'same or better'policing out of a
cmaller force, So in 2013 \he ( 2 )incrime'prediction'software made by PredPol,a Big Data *start-up
hased\in Santa Cruz,Californiaa (i) The Reading 'police \officers could view the program's
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conclusions as a series of squares, \each one just the size of two football fields, If they spent more time
patrolling these squares) there was a good chance they would discourage crime, And sure enough, a year
later, Chief Heim'announced that burglaries were down by 23 percent.
(i )Unlike the crime-stoppers in Steven Spielberg's movie Minority Report, the cops don't arrest
people before they'commit crimes、 Jeffrey\Brantingham, the UCLA'anthropology professor who founded
PredPol,insistedthat the modeis blind'to race and ethnicity)/And unlike other programs, PredPol doesn't
focus on the individualyinstead, it targets ( 3 ).The key inputs) are the typé and location of each crime
and when it occurred.That seems(fair enough. And if cops spend more time in the high-risk zones)
preventing **burglars and car thieves, there's good reason'to believe that the community benefits. a
