{"id":123,"date":"2006-12-12T23:56:11","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T03:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2007-12-13T12:06:12","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T16:06:12","slug":"its-no-coincidence-that-george-orwell-was-british","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s No Coincidence that George Orwell was British"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Criminal profilers working for the London Metropolitan Police&#8217;s Precrime&#8230;I mean, Homicide Prevention Unit are putting together a list of 100 future murderers.  They&#8217;re not simply keeping a list of violent criminals who are now at large.  The project seeks to identify individuals who will, <EM>in the future<\/EM> commit serious crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of Philip K. Dicksian Precogs, the Unit is using a database of statements from former partners, information from mental health workers and details of past complaints to create psychological profiles of likely offenders.  They&#8217;re trying to identify the 100 men most likely to commit murder in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the money quote for me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Once an individual has been identified, police would decide whether to begin arrest proceedings, or alert social services who could steer targeted individuals into &#8220;management programs.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So&#8230;now you can be arrested because a computer program says you might be violent in the future?  Not even Big Brother went that far.<P><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/dailytelegraph\/story\/0,22049,20833990-401,00.html\">Link<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criminal profilers working for the London Metropolitan Police&#8217;s Precrime&#8230;I mean, Homicide Prevention Unit are putting together a list of 100 future murderers. They&#8217;re not simply keeping a list of violent criminals who are now at large. The project seeks to identify individuals who will, in the future commit serious crimes. Instead of Philip K. Dicksian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}