Data-driven policing leads to drop in summer homicides in Los Angeles

September 2017

Innovations in data-driven policing have caused a drop in murders in Los Angeles this summer, according to Criminology, Law and Society Professor George Tita.

In June, July and August, the city saw 59 murders. In recent years, that number has been in the 70s and 80s; last year it was 82. Police have been using data to pinpoint where violence is likeliest to happen, then have assigned resources to those areas.

"The lessons of the past and the advances in data driven policing that the LAPD employs allows them to get a handle on the problem much sooner and not let it fester and bloom into an epidemic," Tita told KPCC.

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