PC Precisely Predicts Felony
Police are always trying to get inside criminals’ minds to predict their next move. In Yonkers, New York, last week a police computer turned this guessing game into a science by correctly forecasting the time and place of a robbery—and dispatched officers to nab the perpetrators.
Lt. James McLaughlin of the Yonkers Police Department technical support unit used a PC to analyze crime statistics and predict the time and location of a robbery before it occurred.
