Colleen McCue who is a behavioral scientist at GeoEye

Crime fighters have long used brains and brawn, but now a new kind of technology known as “predictive policing” promises to make them more efficient. Colleen McCue, pictured on July 10, who is a behavioral scientist at GeoEye, a firm that works on predictive analytics, said studying criminal behavior was not that different from examining other types of behavior like shopping.