(December 2, 2022 at 9:52 pm)TaraJo Wrote:(December 2, 2022 at 6:10 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: But your complaint about cops only getting there after the fact is just plain dumb and stupid - that what cops are there for. I wouldn’t care to live in a society where the police arrested people before crimes were committed. And the police aren’t the ones putting psychopaths into prisons instead of hospitals, that’s done by judges and juries.
I disagree. Had a cop found out about Tim McVeigh's truck and bomb before he blew up a building a lot of lives would have been saved. Had law enforcement known about September 11 before it happened and arrested the terrorists, a lot more lives would have been saved. Stopping crimes before they happen should be a goal of law enforcement if you ask me.
Unfortunately, any real-world attempt at predictive policing will end up being a disaster. Red-flag laws are ineffective at preventing terrorism, but are perfectly capable of destroying peoples' lives.
