How Military Counterinsurgency Software Is Being Adapted To Tackle Gang Violence in Mainland USA
07.09.2013 at 05:42pm
How Military Counterinsurgency Software Is Being Adapted To Tackle Gang Violence in Mainland USA – Technology Review.
… Now the US Army is adapting this technology to help the police tackle gang violence. Damon Paulo and buddies at the US Military Academy at West Point say there are a number of similarities between gang members and insurgents and that similar tools ought to be equally effective in tackling both.
To that end, these guys have created a piece of software called the Organizational, Relationship, and Contact Analyzer or ORCA, which analyses the data from police arrests to create a social network of links between gang members…
