“In the end, the success rate was less than half a percent. Fewer than 100 of the predictions lined up with a crime in the predicted category, that was also later reported to police.”
Plainfield, New Jersey got 23,631 predictions from Geolitica, formerly PredPol, in 2018. Burglary predictions hit 0.1 percent. The town paid $20,500 for the first year and $15,500 to extend it, and the captain now says the money could have gone to a mentoring program for 80 kids. Geolitica is shutting down and SoundThinking, formerly ShotSpotter, is taking its customers.