hildebrand and officer repair grotowski head out on patrol in the past they had to rely exclusively on their instinct and experience to catch burglars now they're putting their trust in the predictive software to tell them which areas are most at risk and to help the offices prevent break ins. as i feared it was this neighborhood has a large number of single family houses but they are at higher risk especially in winter when it gets dark earlier because perpetrators can tell whether someone is home from the lights on it plus burglars expect to find more valuables in single family homes was over the outer. serial burglars will often return to a given area again within 72 hours to hit a 2nd property also because they know the night. board the software capitalizes on this tendency. alexander gluepot of the lower saxony state police helped develop the computer program it's called pre map and it helps identify whether a particular break in was committed by serial burglars and thus whether they are likely to strike again nearby. because it could at certain safeguards the burglars in this cas