This weekend, KSBW President and General Manager Joseph W. Heston's editorial piece focuses on the manner in which the Santa Cruz Police Department, along with other local law enforcement agencies, handled the Occupy movement in Santa Cruz. The editorial characterized our handling of the Occupy situation in Santa Cruz as a "shining example" when compared to clumsily handled situations in other jurisdictions. KSBW offered, "Kudos for the finesse shown by police and sheriff's deputies for how they handled a potentially ugly situation with Occupiers." We appreciate that KSBW took the time to examine our situation in Santa Cruz and report on it in a thoughtful manner. Please take a few minutes to watch the editorial by clicking here. If you prefer to read the text version of the editorial, please click here.
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December 18, 2011
June 29, 2011
Department's Predictive Policing Program Featured on KSBW
The Santa Cruz Police Department has teamed up with Dr. George Mohler of Santa Clara University to be one of the first agencies in the country to apply predictive policing to our patrol patterns. What is predictive policing? Put simply, it is the belief that certain types of crimes (like vehicle burglaries) do not occur randomly. In other words, with enough data a model could actually predict where a future crime would occur.
Dr. Mohler, working with colleagues from southern California, developed a model that uses similar methods to those that predict earthquake aftershocks. Dr. Mohler met with Chief Kevin Vogel, Crime Analyst Zach Friend and Deputy Chief Rick Martinez and Deputy Chief Steve Clark to develop structure that would work in Santa Cruz.
The Santa Cruz Police Department, and soon Los Angeles Police, will be the first in the nation to apply this specific model. In test cases we've run on the data it has been quite successful. The department will run a 6-month trial on the program starting July 1st.
KSBW did a feature story on our program- you can watch the video here.
Dr. Mohler, working with colleagues from southern California, developed a model that uses similar methods to those that predict earthquake aftershocks. Dr. Mohler met with Chief Kevin Vogel, Crime Analyst Zach Friend and Deputy Chief Rick Martinez and Deputy Chief Steve Clark to develop structure that would work in Santa Cruz.
The Santa Cruz Police Department, and soon Los Angeles Police, will be the first in the nation to apply this specific model. In test cases we've run on the data it has been quite successful. The department will run a 6-month trial on the program starting July 1st.
KSBW did a feature story on our program- you can watch the video here.
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