U.S. Cities Relying on Precog Software to Predict Murder

U.S. Cities Relying on Precog Software to Predict Murder | Threat Level | Wired.com: "Who needs the freaky precogs of Minority Report to predict if someone’s likely to commit murder when you have an algorithm that can do it for you?



New crime-prediction software used in Maryland and Pennsylvania, and soon to be rolled out in the nation’s capital too, promises to reduce the homicide rate by predicting which prison parolees are likely to commit murder and therefore receive more stringent supervision."