It's incredibly easy to predict which individuals will commit crime in the future.
Well, no. You'll get an estimated probability for each person and the prediction won't be 100%. So how does it work? Do you invasively monitor all people with X% or greater probability of lawbreaking? That's prejudicial/unfair treatment of a select group of citizens - punishing the innocent before they are proven guilty. I suppose once the process is streamlined you just drop X to zero and monitor everything everyone says... and the system becomes so powerful it attracts corruption and abuse, and we slide further into dystopia.
> It's incredibly easy to predict which individuals will commit crime in the future.
Well, no. You'll get an estimated probability for each person and the prediction won't be 100%. So how does it work? Do you invasively monitor all people with X% or greater probability of lawbreaking? That's prejudicial/unfair treatment of a select group of citizens - punishing the innocent before they are proven guilty. I suppose once the process is streamlined you just drop X to zero and monitor everything everyone says... and the system becomes so powerful it attracts corruption and abuse, and we slide further into dystopia.
They should do this. It's incredibly easy to predict which individuals will commit crime in the future. Hint: it's not 80-year old women. The first step to solving a problem is having an accurate and honest view of the situation.