Math Professor's Program Helps Santa Cruz Police Fight Crimes
SANTA CRUZ (CBS 5) — The Santa Cruz Police Department is using a new tool developed by a Bay Area math professor that aims to fight crime and save money.
The program is called "predictive policing," and it determines where crime is likely to happen next.
Police say they have been using the experimental program for the past three weeks and find the results promising. So far, it can predict the right place and day of a crime occurring with 71 percent accuracy.
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