Armed with high-tech software and years of crime data, Miami police believe they will soon be able to stop crimes by predicting when and where they will occur.
It sounds a little like something out of a science fiction novel, but the department is in the process of adopting a system called HunchLab that produces maps showing small areas where specific crimes are likely to be committed during shifts. The probability program is a geographical version of “predictive policing” software, which more departments are using — even if, in the words of one supportive cop, it’s “kind of scary.”
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Where crime will occur: Black neighborhoods.
ReplyDeleteDone. That was easy.
:) Certainly the vast majority.
ReplyDeleteNo matter how innocuous these crime prediction schemes are advertised as being the logical and predictable outcome will eventually be the practice of imprisonment based on what someone 'might do' or what they claim someone is planning to do. And since those in power are only interested in personal power the people persecuted by this scheme will be those that oppose them.
ReplyDeleteLife for thought crimes.
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