Image source: New York Magazine
This week New York Magazine cover story is about New York’s dropping murder rate, and asks the question, what would it take to get the rate down to zero? My only response is, didn’t that already get figured out in Minority Report?
Image source: IMDB
WORD. And look how much trouble pre-crime got everybody into…
Here’s a paper promoting a minority-report style prediction regime:
http://www.law.ufl.edu/faculty/pdf/dang.pdf
“Preventive detention. . . is only permissible if certain psychological and predictive criteria are met. The psychological criterion should be undeterrability, defined as the characteristic ignorance that oneÂ’s
criminal activity is criminal or a characteristic willingness to commit crime despite certain and significant punishment.”