Justice
Mapping 'Pre-Crime' in Rio
CrimeRadar is the world’s first publicly available crime-forecasting tool based on open-access data. But will it work?
Crime, both real and imagined, has been the subject of intense scrutiny during the Rio 2016 Summer Games. The intense security theater surrounding this Olympics may be unrivaled. When the event winds down, crime may return to high levels across Rio. What that means, though, is poorly understood by city residents and the Olympics-watching world alike.
The Igarapé Institute, a Rio-based think tank, is preparing to launch a new tool to help people to understand how and where crime happens in Rio. After the conclusion of the Olympics, the group will formally unveil its CrimeRadar, a map-based application that uses open data to track incidences of crime across metropolitan Rio de Janeiro.