Minority Report - and it's only 2013, not 2054

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Maryland and Pennsylvania using Minority Report style computers to predict crimes; Washington D.C. next | Mail Online

I think this is headed down a very dangerous road:

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.
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    This is NOT new or futuristic!!!!!! In "minority report" the idea was that psychics witnessed the crime in the FUTURE and police were then sent out to arrest the guy BEFORE he committed the crime. The NAME of the picture is because they had THREE psychics and sometimes one was deemed to make a mistake, so they decided that a report was OFFICIALLY recorded ONLY if two, or more, saw it. If ONE saw it that record was archived, but never checked, and it was called the MINORITY report. The final crime was solved because the most gifted psychic had a slightly different report, and the culprit tried to kill the guy, an ex cop, to stop him from finding the truth. So obviously. he did ALL he could to crack the case.

    Anyway, people came up with this idea THOUSANDS of years ago. They have known it ALL this time. They KNOW it will happen. They only actually use it AFTER something happens. The ACLU or some equivalent will probably fight this! So Professor Richard Berk gets credit for creating a system to try and nudge them to do something they used to do based on information they have been keeping for THOUSANDS of years! SERIOUSLY, the BIBLE talks about this! But they are making it sound like he predicts it right down to the ADDRESS and DATE, like on minority report. CRAZY! The best they can do is determine MAYBE the method, possible candidates, and types of crimes, but that is NOTHING NEW!

    Steve
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