A Hospital Tells Police Where Fights Happen, And Crime Drops
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#2A good example of data-sharing being put to productive use. Apparently with an 3200% ROI. Not bad.
We all know a lot of crimes go unrelated but I never thought certain classes of crimes would be so significantly under-represented.
Re: A Hospital Tells Police Where Fights Happen, And Crime Drops
#3A good example of data-sharing being put to productive use. Apparently with an 3200% ROI. Not bad. We all know a lot of crimes go unrelated but I never thought certain classes of crimes would be so significantly under-represented.
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#5What's most important these days is the data was cleaned first, and was proactively given out to police which was used indirectly to ward off future crime. All it took was police presence.
They didn't need to indiscriminately take patient records out of their backend systems or monitor the hospitals networks and reverse engineer http and packets. They didn't need to target individuals who are repeat offenders or violate any privacy consideratio.
I'd say 150 years ago the nurse was telling the sheriff the boys keep getting too roudy at the saloon, too.
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#6How long are you able to report a crime after the fact?
I remember being hit by a car on my bike (a famously under-reported incident), but both myself and my girlfriend physically/emotionally were in rough shape all day. We forgot to report it, then it ended up slipping out of our minds.
This is a challenging problem to solve with technology, similar to getting patients to take their daily medication on time.
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#7What's most important these days is the data was cleaned first, and was proactively given out to police which was used indirectly to ward off future crime. All it took was police presence. They didn't need to indiscriminately take patient records out of their backend systems or monitor the hospitals networks and reverse engineer http and packets. They didn't need to target individuals who are repeat offenders or viol…
When crime drops, police can get laid off.
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#8How long are you able to report a crime after the fact? I remember being hit by a car on my bike (a famously under-reported incident), but both myself and my girlfriend physically/emotionally were in rough shape all day. We forgot to report it, then it ended up slipping out of our minds. This is a challenging problem to solve with technology, similar to getting patients to take their daily medication on time.
Depends on the country and the crime. In Canada it is 24-48 hours to report your tires being slashed, 1 year to prosecute a vehicle collision, but 25 years for something like rape and/or molestation.
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#9What's most important these days is the data was cleaned first, and was proactively given out to police which was used indirectly to ward off future crime. All it took was police presence. They didn't need to indiscriminately take patient records out of their backend systems or monitor the hospitals networks and reverse engineer http and packets. They didn't need to target individuals who are repeat offenders or viol…
When crime drops, police can get laid off.
Real crime statistics dropping? Or fear/perception of crime dropping?
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#10This is interesting. Hospitals in Austria are actually required by law to report such incidents as far as I know. The same is true for results of domestic violence.