Often when talk turns to predicting crime, it also comes with comparisons to Minority Report, but that hasn’t stopped police departments from embracing predictive analytics technology. In fact, data mining to predict crime is increasingly popular such as the predictive policing system known as PredPol and predicting crime by using Twitter. “This is not Minority Report,” the professor who helped develop PredPol was quick to point out. “This is about predicting where and when crime is most likely to occur, not who will commit it.” Being that there are about 6.8 billion active mobile phones, then it shouldn’t be surprising that researchers have now used the data collected from those devices to predict crime.

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