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Police Program Aims to Pinpoint Those Most Likely to Commit Crimes
An anonymous reader writes: Using profiling algorithms, police are tracking suspected criminals to prevent them from committing predicted crimes. We're one step from locking people up for what they might do. The New York Times reports: "The strategy, known as predictive policing, combines elements of traditional policing, like increased attention to crime “hot spots” and close monitoring of recent parolees. But it often also uses other data, including information about friendships, social media activity and drug use, to identify “hot people” and aid the authorities in forecasting crime."
GUILTY! Instant Death Penalty!
*muffled Grand Jury applauding in the distance*
I cannot see anything that could possibly go wrong with this idea, except for everything.
Can't wait until it's hacked and they start arresting the police chief, the city council, and everyone with a zip code that begins with a letter or a number.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
There is another salient movie about this... NEXT, in which "Frank Cadillac" says "Each time you look at the future, it changes"
Which has more power: the hammer, or the anvil?
Their tool only works (if at all) on certain categories of crime. It misses huge ones, particularly those in which the people in power engage:
* CIA torture.
* CIA, NSA, FBI, and police violations of the Constitution.
* CIA perjury to Congress.
* Bank executives' racketeering in regards to mortgage origination.
I'd pay good money for a tool to detect those kinds of crimes, and to see them properly prosecuted.
The self-fulfilling prophecy would require the person to make the prediction about them self or have someone tell them of the prediction. It doesn't work if the police make the prediction and don't tell you about it.
A lot of parolees are placed at a serioius disadvantage though.
- Have trouble getting a job due to a record.
- Often have to pay ridiculously high fines and "fees" related to their processing and incarceration
- Rarely get good medical treatment for addictions.
- Were often forced into the system by a plea deal
If we are serious about preventing recidivism, we would lay better foundations for helping these people become productive members of society.
Sadly, the reality is that our society prays upon those least able to defend themselves. No one wants to stand up for a convicted ______.
Here's a link about the "fees" http://nation.time.com/2013/08...
meep
AC isn't just joking. You can pretty much bag people arbitrarily, even before adding this system's scrutiny. I hope the internet has memorized Richeliu's quote by now?
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
http://www.threefeloniesaday.c...
Let me guess... you're talking about politicians?
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
And none of the movies looks to underlying factors, like poverty, addiction, mental cases with weapons, peer pressures, gang influences, inability to buy legal help/get actual justice, etc.
The PreCrime motives are unconstitutional, although conspiracy is fair game.
---- Teach Peace. It's Cheaper Than War.