# Predictive Policing **Entity class:** Law-enforcement analytic approach **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Predictive policing** applies statistical or machine-learning models to forecast places, times, events, or persons judged at elevated risk. Systems trained on enforcement-generated data can reproduce patrol and arrest patterns, so predictions require provenance, validation, error analysis, and limits on consequential use. ## Relationships - **method includes:** [[wiki/Risk Terrain Modeling|Risk Terrain Modeling]]. - **critiqued through:** [[wiki/Garbage In Gospel Out|Garbage In, Gospel Out]] and [[wiki/Predict and Surveil|Predict and Surveil]]. - **overlaps with:** [[wiki/Real-Time Observability|Real-Time Observability]] and [[wiki/Graph Analytics|Graph Analytics]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [[research/A Network-Epidemiological Analysis of Radicalization and Real-Time Counterterrorism Observability|Network-Epidemiological Analysis]]