Posted on 10/07/2015 3:12:50 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
In the science fiction thriller “Minority Report,” a police force known as PreCrime uses mutated human psychics to identify criminals before they act.
The U.S. Army is working toward a similar goal — not by reading minds but by crunching data.
Using the military records of all 975,057 soldiers who served during a six-year period, researchers have developed an algorithm they hope can help prevent severe, violent crimes by identifying those at greatest risk of becoming perpetrators.
They would not be pre-arrested, but rather given counseling or other interventions aimed at heading off violence.
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How about a tool to identify politicians most likely to steal money from the public in the form of dogooder boondoggles?
Efforts like this, ESPECIALLY if successful in predicting behavior, rarely stop at just the original stated purpose.
Once proven, the method will undeniably be branched out to other things, e.g., say “tolerance/acceptance quotient,” “openness to morally contradicting orders,” “political or religious obedience”.....it could go on for a whole host of questionable motives.
If the military is going to pursue this, I’d first suggest that we prove the concept by vetting each and every US Government elected (or proposed/nominated) official with a comportment test on the US Constitution.
>>Yeah, what could go wrong?
All part of making veteran status into a virtual “prior conviction”. Of course, this will only apply to white male heterosexual veterans, since you know that they’ll normalize the data to say that brown, black, female, or gay veterans won’t be flagged for pre-crime.
Wasn't he the counselor, himself? How did that work out?
Maybe use this in Chicago...On the Sins....oops...Sons... of Obama...
In other words, the study shows that Sons of Obama are prone to violent crime.
This is clearly going to go nowhere with Obama as CIC.
no tool needed. Short answer: ALL of them eventually sans a select few
They will be at least as accurate as the climate change algorithms.
Sounds like a great tool to pre-identify potential soldier material, as in those most likely to be willing to fight, and win!
How about making entry requirements harder for those wishing to get in the army, because lately the younger guys I have met in the last two years for the most part have been girlie, useless, lazy, fat, and a joke
If it will work for the military,
Certainly it should be applied to
welfare recipients!!!
So they call test results of being constitutionalists and rejecting authority a new tool....
Might be more useful to have a tool that identifies those who won't. Will lead to smaller files.
I hope the first study is used effectively...
The study, part of a massive research effort funded by the Army, builds on a paper published last year that used the same method to create a tool for identifying soldiers at greatest risk of suicide.
I don't think that is an accident.
... and if the ‘identified’ soldiers refuse to attend ‘counseling’? What then?
Ah yes. The “US soldiers are high-strung psychopaths who are about to snap and kill people at any moment” meme. Can we apply these tools to Black Lives Matters protestors? What about Occupy Wall Street types?
Wow, I think they just invented “profiling”. Ain’t that swell? What a concept!
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