Everyday people commit crimes and everyday people are sentenced to jail. In 2012, it is approximated that 12,196,959 people were arrested worldwide. With a motive to minimize crimes, the Kansas City police has created a program named The Kansas City No Violence Alliance. Their main goal is to prevent crimes from happening. They do this by using a strategy called predictive policing. The police keep lists and computerized algorithms to track people who are considered to be likely involved in any crime. Although foreshadowing crime seems like it would result in less violence and would potentially save lives, it is questionable whether or not it is moral. It is debatable whether tracking someone with close detail, because they have committed previous crimes or because they are linked with certain people, is ethically correct. Previous criminals could have turned a new leaf and could have changed for the better. They do not need the police’s scrutiny. Others would oppose this view by arguing that predictive policing is needed to make the world a safer place. This is reasonable, but only if the program does not go out of hand. There is a fine line between morally correct and unethical, and a movie called Minority Report depicts how the police went too far with predictive policing. Minority Report centers on a future society where the police are able to arrest murderers before they commit their crime, but a policemen questions the morality of the program when he himself is accused of murder. Hopefully, today’s predictive policing stays within the moral confines of humanity.
link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/us/police-program-aims-to-pinpoint-those-most-likely-to-commit-crimes.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0
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