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RTS.ch – When police predict crimes This science fiction scenario is already a reality in Milan

Can we imagine one day that a thief, a rapist or any other criminal is arrested before he even commits his crime? This science fiction scenario is already a reality in the cantons of Zurich and Aargau, but also in Milan or in the United States. Predicting the location and date of the next crime is called predictive policing. This new method is already used daily to stop a series of crimes. A simple computer, a machine that calculates a probability for a given area and time, allows the police to anticipate theft even before it is committed.

HBO Vice – The Milan police have a high-tech solution to catch robbers

A rank-and-file officer in the Milan Police Department created a computer program called KeyCrime that has revolutionised how the city catches robbers. When Mario Venturi was assigned to the property division in 2004, his team worked without the help of computers. Venturi thought there was a better way and enlisted the help of some programmer friends to design an algorithm to automate investigation. He convinced his bosses to put the software into action in 2008. Since the Milan Police Department started using KeyCrime, the number of robberies in the city has fallen by 51 percent while the rate of solved cased increased to 60 percent.

SKY TG24: The “program to prevent robberies” is not an American fictional idea. In Milan, it’s real.

Who knows if robbed thieves and scammers will ever be caught planning a robbery, for sure now they risk being caught a moment later with the loot in hand, before they manage to get in the car and escape.
They already call it a “program to prevent robberies” and it is not an American fictional idea, an official of the Milan police station developed it and it is giving the very first results, at least for serial robbers. The software catalogs a series of information, creates a database, starts comparisons and predicts the future event with a probability calculation. A system that allows the police to post where the computer indicates that a robbery might take place.
In Milan, the robbers were caught like this: they came out of a supermarket and found agents waiting for them. In short, for the Milanese police the present is already the future.

Superquark – The study of seriality allows to have forecasting capabilities related to its future events

Milan and its province an area of ​​1,500 square kilometers inhabited by almost 4 million people. Confused among these citizens who hurry to the workplace, the perpetrators of the more than 2000 robberies carried out every year also wander undisturbed. Covered face and gun in hand, the criminals carry out from 5 to 6 robberies a day against supermarkets, pharmacies, banks and shops in general. Police footage highlights the speed with which criminals take possession of the loot and then vanish into thin air. 75 percent of robberies remain unsolved. When the wheel arrives on the spot, the criminals have long since disappeared and the agents have no choice but to collect the witnesses’ accounts and draw up the minutes. Recently, however, something has changed.