Bob
3rd December 2018, 04:55
Imagine psychics trained to live in the future and report back into the present, when a "crime" (as defined by the State" is about to be committed.. And that cops then have the authority to go fetch the "perpetrator" before they commit the "crime".. We have the theme of "Minority Report".. The movie is set primarily in Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia in the year 2054.
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Briefly since we mentioned "Minority Report", for context let's look at this synopsis -
Based on a short story by the late Philip K. Dick, this science fiction-thriller reflects the writer's familiar preoccupation with themes of concealed identity and mind control. Tom Cruise stars as John Anderton, a Washington, D.C. detective in the year 2054. (not that far away)
Anderton works for "Precrime," a special unit of the police department that arrests murderers before they have committed the actual crime.
Precrime bases its work on the visions of three psychics or "precogs" (specially groomed psychics) whose prophecies of future events are never in error. When Anderton discovers that he has been identified as the future killer of a man he's never met, he is forced to become a fugitive from his own colleagues as he tries to uncover the mystery of the victim-to-be's identity.
When he kidnaps Agatha (Samantha Morton), one of the precogs, he begins to formulate a theory about a possible frame-up from within his own department. Directed by Steven Spielberg, who hired a team of futurists to devise the film's numerous technologically advanced gadgets, Minority Report co-stars Colin Farrell, Max von Sydow, and Neal McDonough. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
And how far back was Dick pre-cog'ing this scenario? "The Minority Report" came into press in 1956 as a science fiction short story. It was penned by American writer Philip K. Dick, and first published in Fantastic Universe.
In a future society, three mutants (these are the pre-cogs, or psychics continually kept in viewing "future events" and in the story, they foresee all crime before it occurs. They are "plugged" into a great machine, and through the interface, these "precogs" allow the Precrime Division cops to go out and arrest suspects prior to any infliction of public harm.
Well.. move forward to 26 November 2018
The system, called the National Data Analytics Solution (NDAS), uses a combination of AI and statistics to try to assess the risk of someone committing or becoming a victim of gun or knife crime, as well as the likelihood of someone falling victim to modern slavery.
West Midlands Police is leading the project and has until the end of March 2019 to produce a prototype. Eight other police forces, including London’s Metropolitan Police and Greater Manchester Police, are also involved. NDAS is being designed so that every police force in the UK could eventually use it.
Police funding has been cut significantly over recent years, so forces need a system that can look at all individuals already known to officers, with the aim of prioritising those who need interventions most urgently, says Iain Donnelly, the police lead on the project.
Being Data Mined -- (I've said this before and it continues to be overlooked it appears, all sources of data generated by a person, email, phone-calls, social media, blogs, and forums, traffic stops, surveillance for activity that is "out of the norm" are all sources (and many more) going into the "machine" for profiling)..
This is the first such project of its kind in the world, pooling multiple data sets from a number of police forces for crime prediction, says Donnelly. In the early phases, the team gathered more than a terabyte of data from local and national police databases, including records of people being stopped and searched and logs of crimes committed. Around 5 million individuals were identifiable from the data.
Looking at this data, the software found nearly 1400 indicators that could help predict crime, including around 30 that were particularly powerful. These included the number of crimes an individual had committed with the help of others and the number of crimes committed by people in that individual’s social group.
The rise of predictive policing
Around the world, police are increasingly using data to predict crime. PredPol, developed at Santa Clara University in California, tries to identify future crime hotspots, for example. The system has been used both in the US and the UK.The Los Angeles police has a program that assigns a risk score based on traits such as whether they have previous convictions or are known members of a gang. Patrols are adjusted to keep a closer eye on the “riskiest” people.
The Netherlands uses another software tool that analyses crime data as well as social data in specific areas – such as people’s ages, their incomes and whether they claim benefits. This is used to predict where in a city specific types of crimes are more likely to occur.
Some applications have come in for condemnation, however. Earlier this year, Human Rights Watch criticised the Chinese authorities for allegedly using predictive policing to pre-emptively detain people in the province of Xinjiang.
https://resizing.flixster.com/Uj7OPiMQopydlsMtVLm7xQNv4f8=/206x305/v1.bTsxMTE3MDM0MztqOzE3OTQ5OzEyMDA7ODAwOzEyMDA
Briefly since we mentioned "Minority Report", for context let's look at this synopsis -
Based on a short story by the late Philip K. Dick, this science fiction-thriller reflects the writer's familiar preoccupation with themes of concealed identity and mind control. Tom Cruise stars as John Anderton, a Washington, D.C. detective in the year 2054. (not that far away)
Anderton works for "Precrime," a special unit of the police department that arrests murderers before they have committed the actual crime.
Precrime bases its work on the visions of three psychics or "precogs" (specially groomed psychics) whose prophecies of future events are never in error. When Anderton discovers that he has been identified as the future killer of a man he's never met, he is forced to become a fugitive from his own colleagues as he tries to uncover the mystery of the victim-to-be's identity.
When he kidnaps Agatha (Samantha Morton), one of the precogs, he begins to formulate a theory about a possible frame-up from within his own department. Directed by Steven Spielberg, who hired a team of futurists to devise the film's numerous technologically advanced gadgets, Minority Report co-stars Colin Farrell, Max von Sydow, and Neal McDonough. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi
And how far back was Dick pre-cog'ing this scenario? "The Minority Report" came into press in 1956 as a science fiction short story. It was penned by American writer Philip K. Dick, and first published in Fantastic Universe.
In a future society, three mutants (these are the pre-cogs, or psychics continually kept in viewing "future events" and in the story, they foresee all crime before it occurs. They are "plugged" into a great machine, and through the interface, these "precogs" allow the Precrime Division cops to go out and arrest suspects prior to any infliction of public harm.
Well.. move forward to 26 November 2018
The system, called the National Data Analytics Solution (NDAS), uses a combination of AI and statistics to try to assess the risk of someone committing or becoming a victim of gun or knife crime, as well as the likelihood of someone falling victim to modern slavery.
West Midlands Police is leading the project and has until the end of March 2019 to produce a prototype. Eight other police forces, including London’s Metropolitan Police and Greater Manchester Police, are also involved. NDAS is being designed so that every police force in the UK could eventually use it.
Police funding has been cut significantly over recent years, so forces need a system that can look at all individuals already known to officers, with the aim of prioritising those who need interventions most urgently, says Iain Donnelly, the police lead on the project.
Being Data Mined -- (I've said this before and it continues to be overlooked it appears, all sources of data generated by a person, email, phone-calls, social media, blogs, and forums, traffic stops, surveillance for activity that is "out of the norm" are all sources (and many more) going into the "machine" for profiling)..
This is the first such project of its kind in the world, pooling multiple data sets from a number of police forces for crime prediction, says Donnelly. In the early phases, the team gathered more than a terabyte of data from local and national police databases, including records of people being stopped and searched and logs of crimes committed. Around 5 million individuals were identifiable from the data.
Looking at this data, the software found nearly 1400 indicators that could help predict crime, including around 30 that were particularly powerful. These included the number of crimes an individual had committed with the help of others and the number of crimes committed by people in that individual’s social group.
The rise of predictive policing
Around the world, police are increasingly using data to predict crime. PredPol, developed at Santa Clara University in California, tries to identify future crime hotspots, for example. The system has been used both in the US and the UK.The Los Angeles police has a program that assigns a risk score based on traits such as whether they have previous convictions or are known members of a gang. Patrols are adjusted to keep a closer eye on the “riskiest” people.
The Netherlands uses another software tool that analyses crime data as well as social data in specific areas – such as people’s ages, their incomes and whether they claim benefits. This is used to predict where in a city specific types of crimes are more likely to occur.
Some applications have come in for condemnation, however. Earlier this year, Human Rights Watch criticised the Chinese authorities for allegedly using predictive policing to pre-emptively detain people in the province of Xinjiang.