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"The Woodland Police Department is adopting analytics and predictive policing to fight crime.Using\u00A0a web-based software called Predictive Policing, officers are alerted to where crime is most likely to occur.The algorithm uses verified crime data to provide a snapshot of crime hot spots, which are rendered in 500-by-500-foot geographic squares within the city. Officers who are not actively responding to a call will focus their attention on a \"heat\" map identified by the software.Woodland police will pay $25,000 a year to use the software.The hope is the city will see the success other cities have experienced by using the tool.Predictive policing was developed when the Los Angeles and Santa Cruz police departments approached academics in 2005 to study crime data. Officers were looking to use technology and high-level math to give police more ways to deal with crime.The technology was also a high priority during a time of police layoffs and budget cutbacks.Analytics have worked in policing. Burglaries in Santa Cruz were cut by 19 percent just months after the new system was put to use. In Los Angeles, property crimes were cut by 12 percent in 2011.Police said the software also uses history to determine the locations, but will not rely on personal information.In just the last year, more than a dozen U.S. and foreign cities have decided to use the technology, including Seattle, San Francisco and Atlanta."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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