6d ago

UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill.

www.statewatch.org

Statewatch | UK: Ministry of Justice secretly developing ‘murder prediction’ system

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/28280646

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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1w ago

UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill.

www.statewatch.org /news/2025/april/uk-ministry-of-justice-secretly-developing-murder-prediction-system/

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1w ago

UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill.

www.statewatch.org /news/2025/april/uk-ministry-of-justice-secretly-developing-murder-prediction-system/

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Is it triplets in body temp water popping out spheres with people's names in them?

Chicago did that.
Turned out to be a crock of shit.
- But the torture basement isn't going to fill itself.
  https://inthesetimes.com/article/jon-burge-torture-reparations

Of course. The paranoid state thinking everyone is out to get them developed "pre-cogs" from Minority Report. Except it's a hallucinating LLM. Brilliant.
Maybe England should've stuck with government based on wartery tarts doling out scimitars.

Minority Report

German author Sebastian Fitzek wrote a nice thriller on this topic: Das Joshua Profil

The MoJ has developed and implemented other data-based profiling tools in the British criminal legal system to predict offending.
This includes the re-offending prediction tool called the ‘Offender Assessment System’. ‘Predictions’ produced by this system are given to judges as part of sentencing decisions, prison categorisation, and also influence probation decisions, such as when someone is released from prison.
Research by the MoJ itself has found that these data-based models rank Black offenders less accurately than white offenders.
- "The government has a secret system. It spies on you every hour of every day."

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