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UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill. (www.statewatch.org)
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The Ministry of Justice is developing a system that aims to ‘predict’ who will commit murder, as part of a “data science” project using sensitive personal data on hundreds of thousands of people.

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[-] jasoman@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

No it is never wrong, just super early. Just arrest people at 18 for crime they will do at 60 obviously.

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