"The police claim AI and tech can 'predict' where crimes will take place and who will commit them. They think they can target people and neighbourhoods BEFORE crimes take place. This sounds like something from a sci-fi film or dystopian novel. But it's happening right now in the UK."

Sign the @openrightsgroup petition now!

#UKPol #Precrime

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ban-crime-predicting-police-tech

Outlook not so good

Police tech doesn’t predict crime. It predicts policing.

Based on biased data, it brings more of the same – racist policing and poverty punishment.

Read our latest blog on why crime 'predicting' police tech must be BANNED

#SafetyNotSurveillance

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/why-predictive-policing-must-be-banned/

The secret police are no longer secret. We are under occupation. Any one of us could be disappeared next. Legality means nothing anymore.

Another student has been arrested for “thought crime”.

The court filing said Mahdawi was targeted by a pro-Israel organization #Betar USA, which said on social media that “visa holder Mohsen Mahdawi is on our deport list.”

In a previous interview with “60 Minutes” regarding the protests, Mahdawi had condemned an individual who came to one and yelled “death to Jews.”
“I was shocked and they walked directly to the person and they told him, ‘You don’t represent us,’” he said, adding “to be antisemitic is to be unjust and the fight for the freedom of Palestine and the fight against antisemitism go hand in hand because a threat to justice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5248506-columbia-student-mohsen-mahdawi-dhs-ice/

#UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/08/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill

Did you know that #PhilipKDick coined the term #PreCrime?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-crime

The UK's murder prediction AI will create a dangerous, criminalising loop.

This tech repackages flawed police data as neutral. Then replicates itself.

The existing over-policing of racialised, low income and migrant communities will be hardwired into police operations.

We need #SafetyNotSurveillance

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/08/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill

Turns out #Precrime is British.

https://mastodon.scot/@JackTheCat/114304028332480608

Rage Against The Algorithm

https://www.levernews.com/rage-against-the-algorithm/

As Trump goes all in on artificial intelligence, automated systems are already ruining lives by denying people vital services, trapping them in surveillance networks, and flagging them as potential future offenders. Now one man is fighting back…

Amnesty's new report shows that the police are supercharging racism through predictive policing.

At least 33 UK police forces have used prediction or profiling tools.

“These systems are developed and operated using data from policing and the criminal legal system. That data reflects the structural and institutional racism and discrimination in policing and the criminal legal system.”

#policing #police #precrime #predictivepolicing #codedbias #ukpolitics #ukpol

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/19/uk-use-of-predictive-policing-is-racist-and-should-be-banned-says-amnesty

Welcome to 2025: Where Your Freedoms Go to Die

“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”—Montesquieu, Enlightenment philosopher
Wondering what to expect from the government in 2025?
So far, it looks like it will be more of the same ill-advised, costly, greedy, taxpayer-funded, dunderheaded power grabs, saber-rattling, graft, #corruption , and make-works programming that leaves us no better off than where we started.
Indeed, we’ve been down this road so many times before that there should be no surprise when, no matter who occupies the White House, we find ourselves subjected to more of the same when it comes to the erosion of civil liberties and the increasing power of the #government and its corporate partners-in-crime.
The following topics from the article:
- Digital #prisons
- #Precrime
- Mandatory quarantines
- Mental health assessments by non-medical personnel
- Tracking #chips for citizens
- #Military involvement domestically
- Government #censorship of anything it classifies as #disinformation
- Threat assessments
- #War on #cash
- Expansive surveillance
- Militarized #police
- Police shootings of unarmed citizens
- False flags and #terrorist attacks
- Endless #wars to keep America’s military’s empire employed
- Erosions of private property
- #Overcriminalization
- Strip searches and the denigration of bodily integrity
- #Censorship
- #Taxation Without Any Real Representation

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/welcome_to_2025_where_your_freedoms_go_to_die

In July, 17 organisations signed an open letter to the UK Home Secretary calling for an end to ‘predictive’ policing systems as part of the #SafetyNotSurveillance coalition.

With an AI Bill expected in 2025, we're ready to fight pre-crime systems that exacerbate racism and undermine our right to be presumed innocent.

Read more https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/artificial-intelligence-safety-not-surveillance-coalition-calls-for-ban-on-predictive-policing/