Abstract:The direction of public policies plays an important role in society as a whole, especially in security, which, in addition to being considered a necessity for every citizen, is constitutionally guaranteed. This study presents the use of an unsupervised learning approach for the establishment of clusters among the municipalities in the State of Pernambuco, Brazil, considering some types of representative crimes, aiming to direct actions to prevent and fight crime in order to support policy makers. The k-means a… Show more
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