Police in Japan eye AI-assisted predictive policing before Olympics

Police in Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, plan to introduce predictive policing, a method of anticipating the occurrence of crimes and accidents using artificial intelligence, as the first force in Japan to do so, prefectural government sources said Sunday.The Kanagawa police will seek research expenses under the prefectural government's fiscal 2018 budget from April, hoping to put a predictive policing system into practice on a trial basis before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, they said.A system to analyze whether the perpetrator of several crimes is the same, predict an offende…READ FULL ARTICLE