PreCrime

Science fiction has become a reality in our modern criminal justice system A term originally coined by science fiction author Philip K Dick precrime is a policing technique now used in both the US and Europe to identify hot peoplethose most likely to be victims or perpetrators of a crime Forecasting software and algorithms that have been criticized as inaccurate and arbitrary are used to collect information and monitor and flag people But predictive tools are only as good as the data theyre fed With scant evidence of the reliability of the data sources or the accuracy of the data crunching misfires are a guarantee In this chilling and explosive indepth examination into the modern age of policing directors Monika Hielscher and Matthias Heider pose an important question How much freedom and human awareness are we willing to give to the limited logic of technology