Back before computers were a thing in most people's homes, let alone pockets, police would plot on a map the crime reports of the past year and assign more pat

Back before computers were a thing in most people's homes, let alone pockets, police would plot on a map the crime reports of the past year and assign more patrols to areas with a high density of crime. Is this practice now banned? Because this is predictive policing, albeit in a crude form. Presumably it just means computerized predictive policing, but it still seems odd that people see to think that analyzing past patterns of crime to better allocate police is something novel.