His administration will work with the police to "help eliminate racism in policing," the seaside city's first male African-American mayor said on his Facebook page, following a vote on Tuesday evening.
Used by police across the United States for almost a decade, predictive policing relies on algorithms to interpret police records, analyzing arrest or parole data to send officers to target chronic offenders, or identifying places where crime may occur.
But critics says it reinforces racist patterns of policing - low-income, ethnic minority neighborhoods have historically been over policed so the data shows them as crime hotspots, leading to the deployment of more police to those areas.