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LEADS Scholar Spotlight — Predictive Policing Algorithms

May 2018
Shon Barnes, a deputy police chief with the Salisbury Police Department in North Carolina and a Class of 2015 scholar of NIJ’s Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science (LEADS) Program, explains predictive policing and details a quasi-experiment that his department performed. He credits the LEADS Scholarship Program with helping him understand data and ask the right questions.

NIJ Science

NCJ Number
245876
Date Published
April 2013
Agencies
OJP, NIJ
Publication Type
Program/Project Description