The NYPD Will Use Twitter to Predict Street Crime

With the growing migration of services to online environments, some of the less-desirable aspects of society are coming with them. In an effort to curb crime, New York City police departments worked with scientists to create a system that predict crime hot spots. But that’ll only do so much when online crime is getting easier all the time.

The crime-mapping technology, which uses Twitter to predict possible future crime, was developed by Dr. Matthew Greber, a researcher at the University of Virginia.