The NYPD is using a new pattern recognition system to help solve crimes
The New York City Police Department is using a new software system called Patternizer, which helps officers search through “hundreds of thousands” of case files, according to a report in The Washington Post.
The report says that the software was developed in house, and allows analysts to search across a wide range of files to look for patterns or similar crimes. Previously, they would have had to have gone through physical files. In one example, officers used the system to connect two crimes — a man who used a syringe to steal a drill in two different Home Depots in New York City. Rebecca Shutt, the crime analyst who solved the case explained to the Post that the system “brought back complaints from other precincts that I wouldn’t have…
