Predictive policing utilizes data mining methodologies such as neural networks and logistic regression to identify geographic areas as high crime areas, which allows police departments to target resources to high crime areas.
Read the following article on predictive policing and write an initial post with your thoughts on the article in relation to the content of this course.
Predictive Policing (Links to an external site.)
What are the legal and ethical issues here?
Given the legal and ethical challenges you’ve identified, where does that leave you on applying what we’ve learned in class to this problem?
Why might logistic regression or a classification tree be preferable to a neural network solution to this problem?
Identify one other problem that we might solve with data mining that poses similar ethical considerations.
Your initial post should address all 4 bullet points above. Follow up posts should critically assess and respectfully question, if necessary, the original poster’s thoughts.