Crime Prediction

pipingguy writes "More than a decade of extensive crime data collection matched with new technology may soon allow police to predict to a surprising degree of accuracy the number and type of crimes that will occur in a given neighborhood one month in advance."

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I liked this better

[recursiv]

When it was called Minority Report

Re:I liked this better

[HTH NE1]

Granted the ability to stop some crimes before they happen would be of incredible benefit to society as whole.

It's like doing unto others before they do unto you. Soon, even attempted attempted murder will become a crime.

Then, since a neighborhood is considered a high crime area, the whole neighborhood will be placed under neighborhood arrest. The imprisoned area will become larger and larger until you'll need the assistance of one Snake Plissken to get out.

computer predicts heinous crimes w/100% certainty:

[presearch]

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Re:Has anybody read Asimov's Foundation trilogy?

[L. VeGas]

Has anybody read Asimov's Foundation trilogy?

I thought I felt a breeze. It must have the collective wind from 500,000 slashdotters raising their hands at the same time.

I can predict crime too!

[Anonymous Coward]

I predict that in the next few moments, an incident of copyright infringement will occur.

*waits*

*click*

*clickyclick*

Looks like I was right.

I also predict that a few marijuana-related laws will be broken this evening.

Damn, I'm GOOD!