“We were still doing things the way we’d always done them,”
Godwin says. “And when you do that, you can expect the same results.”
So early on in his tenure, Godwin convened a meeting of top law
enforcement experts to formulate a fresh strategy to turn the tide in
the city’s crime war. Among the participants in this mini-summit was
Dr. Richard Janikowski, a professor of Criminology at the University
of Memphis who specialized in using predictive analytics to better
understand patterns.