Math helps detect gang-related crime and better allocate police resources

Thursday, February 14, 2013 - 14:01 in Psychology & Sociology

(Phys.org)—Social groups in a population can lend important cues to law enforcement officials, consumer-based services and risk assessors. Social and geographical patterns that provide information about such communities or gangs have been a popular subject for mathematical modeling.

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