Can New Tech Reduce Crime? With Robert Muggah of Igarape Institute

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Statistics show that crime, especially violent crime, is hyper concentrated within certain times, places and people. Just look at these stats:
90-95 % of homicides take place in less than 2% of the street addresses in any area.
Half of all crimes occur within the same 10 hours of every week.
5% or less of the population in any given area is responsible for 90% of crime that happens there.
Is there a way to leverage this data to prevent crime? Robert Muggah thinks so.
Listen in to hear him explain how technology is revolutionizing the world’s policing systems.
Here’s a sampling of what you’ll learn from the show:

* How one technology reduced police response time in Brazil from 14 days after a crime had taken place to 20 minutes after it was reported
* What hot spot policing is and why it’s important
* What the controversial “hotlist algorithm” is and the ethical questions it’s raising

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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here, Almost Here, Round the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:08.0	Future Technologies Voice to Transform Our Lives, for better or worse, are the focus of this podcast.
0:13.6	Almost here, means these technologies are now here and
0:16.7	starting to be used.
0:18.2	We're just around the corner.
0:19.7	From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence,
0:22.0	3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:25.4	Hello this is Richard Jacobs with the Future Tech Podcast. Today my guest is Robert Mugga
0:31.6	the co-founder of the Agatapi Institute.
0:35.0	Robert, how you doing?
0:37.0	Terrific.
0:38.0	Yeah, I got through some difficult pronunciations here, so
0:42.0	first stage is over, and if you would can you let
0:45.7	listeners know what the Institute does and what your work there consists of?
0:50.8	Sure well so we're an impartial and independent what we call a think and do take, which
0:57.9	means we like to provoke some progressive thinking, but we also like to develop solutions for some of the things we talk about.
1:07.0	And the Institute was set up in 2011.
1:11.0	We focused on five big themes that are all pretty much interconnected but all distinguish them for the sake of clarity
1:19.0	first we work on what's called citizen security so everything to do with Police and Criminal Reform.
1:24.6	We also work on drug policy, so we look at progressive approaches to drug policy.
1:30.0	We do a fair bit of work on cities, specifically building out dashboards and new tools to help promote safety in cities.
1:38.0	And then we work on cyber security and digital rights, and then finally we work on international peace and security.
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