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Saturday, January 12, 2013

Minority Report Has Arrived: Maryland And Pennsylvania Using Computers To Predict Future Crimes

  • Parole officers use software to decide level of supervision for ex-inmates
  • Uses algorithm devised by American criminology professor Richard Berk
When police in Minority Report predicted who would commit crimes and stopped them before they did it, it was considered so futuristic, the film was set in 2054.

Now, however, law enforcers in two American states are using crime-prediction software to predict which freed prisoners are most likely to commit murder, and supervising them accordingly.

Instead of relying on parole officers to decide how much supervision inmates will need on the outside by looking at their records, the new system uses a computer algorithm to decide for them. 
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 12, 2013 at 9:41 AM

    Waste of resources. So now we look into our crystal ball and decide how someone proceeds from their? Bologna, anyone that thinks this is good is no friend of mine.

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 12, 2013 at 9:53 AM

    Sounds to me like this will lead to profiling. And do you know why police agencies have used profiling as a proventive measure to deter crime? Because it works.

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 12, 2013 at 12:08 PM

    Maybe they should profile this as a " nazi approach to law enforcement"

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