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1. koheri+9e[view] [source] 2020-06-22 19:35:24
>>pseudo+(OP)
This doesn't seem to make sense. By more accurately predicting where crimes will occur, the police departments can reduce the amount of patrols needed.
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2. uoaei+sf[view] [source] 2020-06-22 19:39:44
>>koheri+9e
I urge you to read Minority Report, or watch the movie.
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3. chriss+Zj[view] [source] 2020-06-22 19:54:32
>>uoaei+sf
> I urge you to read Minority Report, or watch the movie.

This is fiction.

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4. Kednic+CV[view] [source] 2020-06-22 22:49:53
>>chriss+Zj
FAST, the Future Attribute Screening Technology, was a federal precrime research effort from the Department of Homeland Security which sought to pick criminals out at public locations based on biometrics. [0] FAST was tested in secret on the USA population in an unknown location. [1]

PredPol is a precrime system written by a mathematician (an assistant professor of math and CS) which recommends where police officers ought to patrol. [2] PredPol was deployed in Santa Cruz and Los Angeles, CA.

This is not fiction.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20100603031047/http://www.dhs.go...

[1] https://www.nature.com/news/2011/110527/full/news.2011.323.h...

[2] http://math.scu.edu/~gmohler/predpol.html

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