UK: Targeting Before Offense
Experts from the Metropolitan Police’s Homicide Prevention Unit are creating psychological profiles of likely offenders to predict patterns of criminal behaviour. Statements from former partners, information from mental health workers and details of past complaints are being combined to identify the men considered most likely to commit serious violent crimes.
Short term: This kind of thing can be overseen and regulated and prevented from turning into a Minority Report type fiasco.
Long term: Every added layer of complexity adds potential for delay, opaqueness, and inertia to corrupt the core process. The additional layers that are guaranteed to be put in place stem from the cyclical changes in political leadership.
-Shlok
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