I Predict The Minority Report

The Minority Report is a novel by Philip K. Dick where three mutants are plugged into a machine and foresee all crime before it occurs so police can arrest suspects before they can commit any actual crimes.
The UK Government obviously thought that sounded like a good idea because apparently they are creating a 'murder prediction tool' to identify people most likely to become killers or commit serious violent offences.
The scheme being implemented by the Ministry of Justice comes with the catchy name of 'Sharing data to improve risk assessment' and the existence of the project was discovered by Freedom of Information requests from Statewatch who are a pressure group whose mission is to ensure democracy, civil liberties, personal and political rights, free movement, freedom of information, equality and diversity.
The government says the project is at this stage for research only and will: 'Provide evidence towards improving risk assessment of serious crime, and ultimately contribute to protecting the public via better analysis' but campaigners claim the data used would build bias into the predictions.
The project, commissioned by Rishi Sunak, uses data from the Prison Service, Probation Service and data from Greater Manchester police and collects information on types of criminal convictions, the persons age and health markers such as mental health as well as names, gender and ethnicity.
That the Police will depend upon a Computer regarding a person based on events that have not yet happened is worrisome but then so is the current way of finding criminals which in the current institutionally racist force is simply are they not white? Then GUILTY!!!