Crimecast: A crime prediction and strategy direction service

Various researches on criminology provides us with a key piece of information about criminal psychology that, a criminal doesn't hover around unknown territory rather they commit crimes when opportunity provides in a concentrated or familiar area i.e. hotspots. So, a crime predicting model can be simulated using crime pattern theory which can analyze verified past crime data and predict future criminal activities. The aim of this paper is to introduce CRIMECAST which is a crime prediction and strategy direction service which attempts to predict probable future crimes by simulating probabilistic model implementation and Artificial Neural Network. CRIMECAST is a spatial crime analysis process that focuses on authentic crime history and predicts crime, develops strategy map, provides security alert. Our simulation on very big dataset show that CRIEMECAST outperforms all other methods of making crime predictions.