Evaluation of the Shreveport Predictive Policing Experiment

• Main Author: Hunt, Priscillia (auth)
• Other Authors: Saunders, Jessica (auth), Hollywood, John S. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2014
• Subjects: Criminal law & procedure; Probability & statistics; Police & security services; Science: general issues; Crime & criminology; Sociology; Political Science; Law; General Science; Statistics
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This report documents an assessment of a predictive policing effort that was conducted to evaluate the crime reduction effects of policing guided by statistical predictions. In addition to a basic appraisal of the process, the report shows the crime impacts and costs directly attributable to the str...