NationStates Jolt Archive

Well, it may be upon us... looks like they have a computer that was right (at least once).

Maybe we won't be arresting people before they commit the crime, but hopefully, police will be at the site of the crime BEFORE something happens.

Lt. James McLaughlin of the Yonkers, New York police department Technical Support unit used a computer to analyze patterns in robberies in southwest Yonkers. According to the computer's analysis, there would be a robbery between 8 p.m. and midnight on Wednesday on South Broadway.

"He predicted it and he was right," Police Commissioner Robert Taggart said.

Anthony Jimenez, 17, of Gastonia, N.C., and Richard Pino, 20, of 108 Highland Ave., Yonkers, were arrested and two guns confiscated after a 25 year old woman was robbed of her cell phone at 8:44 p.m. Wednesday at South Broadway and Ludlow Street, police said. They were charged with first-degree robbery and first-degree criminal use of a firearm, both felonies.

http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050722/NEWS02/507220348/1023/NEWS07

Makes you wonder how many robberies normally take place on South Broadway and how times they have hung around like spanners on some street waiting for the prediction to come true.

I see nothing wrong with this.

Well, it may be upon us... looks like they have a computer that was right (at least once).

Maybe we won't be arresting people before they commit the crime, but hopefully, police will be at the site of the crime BEFORE something happens.



http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050722/NEWS02/507220348/1023/NEWS07
Now that I can agree with preventative police work… that is just being efficient making sure you have the right people in the right place at the right time.

No better or worse then using data from an informant to make a bust.

Though one question do you think police should be able to obtain a search weren’t based on a computer simulation like this?

So...what's the escalation? Criminals start using computers to vary their attacks?

of course what they don't tell you is that the criminals were using the same computer to select there crimes the police just clicked the wrong shortcut:p

Maybe the police just realized the criminals were following scenarios in GTA and played a little farther ahead than the muggers. :)

Well, it may be upon us... looks like they have a computer that was right (at least once).

Maybe we won't be arresting people before they commit the crime, but hopefully, police will be at the site of the crime BEFORE something happens.



http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050722/NEWS02/507220348/1023/NEWS07
A robbery in New York. Isn't that like saying the Sun's coming up tomorrow?

Maybe the police just realized the criminals were following scenarios in GTA and played a little farther ahead than the muggers. :)
That's awesome.

Well, it may be upon us... looks like they have a computer that was right (at least once).

Maybe we won't be arresting people before they commit the crime, but hopefully, police will be at the site of the crime BEFORE something happens.



http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050722/NEWS02/507220348/1023/NEWS07

This ain't minority report.

I predict a breach of the peace at 2am next Saturday outside the 5th Avenue nightclub in Manchester, UK. :rolleyes:

So a simple computer algorithm gave a very general criminal profile of robberies in the area after being fed some unkown amount of data?
If you think that's minority report, I'm surprised your brain hasn't imploded while trying to wrap itself around how video games work, or maybe you havn't tried to comprehend.

I predict a breach of the peace at 2am next Saturday outside the 5th Avenue nightclub in Manchester, UK. :rolleyes:

I predict a couple of assaults, and several citations for drunk in public at the intersection of Elden Street and Alabama Drive in Herndon, Va, on Friday night at 10 PM.

What's the problem? The computer predicted a crime; the police caught the person in the act. PreCrime arrested a particular person before they had ever committed a crime, for having the potentiality to do it in the future.