Minority Report PreCrime Test Claims Success; Seeks Expansion Worldwide
By Nicholas West
ActivistPost.com
OCTOBER 8, 2015
Well, it sounds like PreCrime policing is officially set to expand across the nation, and perhaps the world.
The pace of technological advancement is now quickening to the point where the gap between science fiction and reality is being greatly reduced. Philip K. Dick explored the concept of PreCrime in his short story “The Minority Report” in 1956, but it wasn’t until Steven Spielberg offered it on the big screen as Minority Report in 2002 that the audience got a true look at a potential day-to-day existence under corporate and government data management and control.
The problem is that it can’t be called fiction if it’s actually happening; and among the vast array of surveillance and Big Brother intrusion nothing will likely affect the average person as much as the concept of PreCrime taking hold in modern policing.
PreCrime Internet systems already continuously scour and collect data for potentially incriminating patterns, and this is merging in ever greater frequency with police activity on the streets. I’ve previously reported on the following states which have field-tested and in some cases implemented PreCrime without feedback from the citizens of these areas. Referred to as “hot spots,” the concept of predicting outbreaks of criminality and violence are being sold to a general public who is rightly concerned about their physical safety, but may not realize the slippery slope being tread upon.
Chicago’s “Heat List” is an index of approximately 400 people who have been identified by a computer algorithm as being future threats to commit violent crime. Without having actually committed a crime, some of those on the list have actually been visited by Chicago police warning them that they are being watched.
In California, a sociologist at the University of California, Riverside has been working with the Indio Police Department to offer a computer dragnet that can predict where burglaries are going to happen in the future. Prof. Robert Nash Parker has developed a “computer model that predicts, by census block group, where burglaries are likely to occur.” Notably, Indio only has a population of 75,000, indicating that no area is to be considered off the radar of the technocratic police state.
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