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Hot Spot Policing is a form of Predictive Policing where police target small geographic areas that have been predicted to have high crime density by an algorithm using crime data, often depicted through Crime Mapping (Esri GIS).

Hot spot policing is a way for police to use the guise of “crime analysis” to justify assigning continued and/or additional police presence in the form of car, foot, and Helicopters Patrols, as well as other policing tactics, to neighborhoods that are historically under-resourced and have long been oppressively occupied by police.

Image description and source: Map from a 2014 LAPD Report on Newton Division, using LAPD data to create “hot spots.”