At Mayor's Question Time on Wednesday (21/11/12), Assembly Member James Cleverly will call on Boris Johnson to radically improve the Met's intelligence system and introduce predictive crime mapping* in London.
Commenting, James Cleverly AM said,
"Money needs to be targeted at systems that can achieve more for less. Predictive crime mapping is a computer programme which allows police to turn up at an event and prevent a crime before it even happens. It's welcomed by civil liberties groups as a successful, non-intrusive form of intelligence. And it will mean that we are one step ahead of criminals.
"There is a lot of evidence from the USA that, where predictive crime mapping has been used, crime can be significantly cut. These kinds of results cannot be ignored; so I am calling on the Mayor to test out this system in London."