Predicting crime is great. It means you're working to understand the state of your society. Using it for policing is idiotic. You can't arrest a statistic. In

Predicting crime is great. It means you're working to understand the state of your society. Using it for policing is idiotic. You can't arrest a statistic. Instead, it should be used for public policy, to understand what communities are at risk, direct efforts to understand why they are risk, and engineer better systems to support those communities.