International Business Review: Fighting crime with computers: Is predictive policing the future of law enforcement?

When it comes to predictive policing – using cutting-edge data algorithms and software to help fight crime – it’s easy to stumble into the realm of science-fiction.

Minds will drift to Minority Report, the Tom Cruise action flick that centres on the notion of using ‘pre-crime’ systems to catch criminals before they act, and while police maintain this is not their intention, the increasing reliance on secretive technology to catch and judge criminals is more popular than ever before…