Last updated on April 9, 2021, 7:34 a.m. by tarush
Introduction:
Spatiotemporal data related to the public security have been growing at an exponential rate during the recent years. In order to facilitate crime prevention, several scholars have developed models to predict crime. Most used historical crime data alone to calibrate the predictive models. The crime risk area prediction, based on the relevant influencing factors of criminal activities, refers to the correlation between criminal activities and physical environment, which both derived from the ‘‘routine activity theory’’. Traditional crime risk estimation methods usually detect crime hotspots from the historical
Results:
By comparing the prediction results of different machine learning models before and after adding covariates, the following indicators are used for evaluation. Grid Hit Rate HitRa refers to the ratio between the number of predicted correct hotspot grids and the total number of actual hotspot grids. Case Hit Rate HitRn refers to the ratio between the actual number of cases in the forecast correct hot grids and the total number of cases in the study area in this period. The larger the value of HitRn is, the more cases are included in the hot grids, and the higher the accuracy of prediction is
Conclusion:
Six machine learning algorithms are applied to predict the occurrence of crime hotspots in a town in the southeast coastal city of China. The following conclusions are drawn:
The prediction accuracies of LSTM model are better than those of the other models. It can better extract the pattern and regularity from historical crime data. The case hit rate of the LSTM model used in this paper was 59.9%, and the average grid hit rate was 57.6%, which was improved compared with the previous research results, For the future research, there are still some aspects to be improved.
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