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UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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From the who-needs-precogs dept.:

Researchers are alleged to be using algorithms to analyse the information of thousands of people, including victims of crime, as they try to identify those at greatest risk of committing serious violent offences.

The scheme was originally called the “homicide prediction project”, but its name has been changed to “sharing data to improve risk assessment”. The Ministry of Justice hopes the project will help boost public safety but campaigners have called it “chilling and dystopian”.

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[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

As a tool to help find patters and collate police reports and notes this could be very useful. We've recently seen how the police dropped the investigation of Russel Brand, while a TV documentary found the truth. I'm betting there are tons of cases like this. Software tools (including LLMs) can scan large amounts of text. And there might be lots of cases that will be obvious once you look at all the pieces.