I've done a considerable amount of work on intelligence-led policing and I find this new thrust for predictive policing a real reach. I've yet to see any law enforcement agency conduct intelligence operations on the same scale or as continuously as the military-intel community. I think its great that police departments are finally reverting to intel processes and smarter employment, but I think most of their so called predictive policing techniques have been done by smart cops for years but not documented. Those that come from data are strictly extrapolations that don't really anticipate change as much as hope that future crime patterns match old crime patterns.