It’s not quite a scene from the 2002 science fiction thriller “Minority Report,” but “predictive crime” methods the Hutchinson Police Department is developing nonetheless appear to be making a notable dent in the city’s felony crime rates. The department has implemented a crime reduction strategy built on police intelligence combined with community engagement since the arrival of Chief Jeffrey Hooper in late 2018. Like a lot of things, the novel coronavirus interrupted those efforts. But as things have reopened and community engagement becomes once more possible, statistical data kept by the department shows a significant impact through the first half of this year. Hooper shared the numbers while reviewing the city’s 2020 crime data.
Source: Hutch News
