While reporting on how big data could be used to help law enforcementidentify the next felon
, or conversely, target innocent people, I heard one anecdote about predictive policing that was decidedly low tech, but no less intriguing.
It came from Peter Ship, a former detective with London's Metropolitan Police Service
, who described an effort that he and his colleagues used in the 1990s to try to reduce the number of rapes occurring in the city.
