Data mining can also be used to predict where and when crimes will occur most likely in the future. This is not a statement from the film Minority Report (Spielberg) but the thesis presented in the book Data Mining and Predictive Analysis: Intelligence Gathering and Crime Analysis, written by Colleen McCue, senior researcher at International LRTI. In her book, McCue says that the predictive data mining can identify trends in crime and anticipate criminal events allowing the police forces to refine the internal decision processes. The same tools used to fill the supermarkets' shelves can be used to secure the community and improve the civil life if adopted by the police forces, McCue says, with some arrangements concerning some of the guidelines of data mining, and the application of specialized software tools.
