New tools now being designed to increase the effective use of police resources have the ability to make every agency more efficient, regardless of the availability of resources. The innovative predictive-policing model moves law enforcement from focusing on what happened to focusing on what will happen and how to effectively deploy resources in front of crime, thereby changing outcomes. With new technology, new business processes, and new algorithms, predictive policing is based on directed, information-based patrol; rapid response, supported by fact-based prepositioning of assets; and proactive, intelligence-based tactics, strategy, and policy. The analytic methods used in the predictive-policing model surface particular times and locations predicted to be associated with an increased likelihood of crime. 16 notes