The Met Police want to use data to predict which men will commit violent crimes against women or girls, according to its most senior officer.
Speaking to the Exceptional Policing conference on Oct. 12, Met commissioner Sir Mark Rowley talked about wanting to use behavioural data to make predictions about future crimes which would stop would-be offenders before they attack.
He said that the Met is working to “build a city-wide data picture of men who we know prey on and commit abhorrent crimes against women and girls across London, which is more sophisticated than ever before.”
Rowley said, “sadly, we know it is many tens of thousands of men.”…