AS BASTARD Old Holborn puts it: “What the f*ck?”
CCTV cameras which can ‘predict’ if a crime is about to take place are being introduced on Britain’s streets. The cameras can alert operators to suspicious behaviour, such as loitering and unusually slow walking. Anyone spotted could then have to explain their behaviour to a police officer.
They’re bing trialled in Porstmouth. If it works thinking will be outlawed. That’s the police officer with the taser drawn and ready to fire it 0000.1 of a second after the crime has been actioned. Too late by then. Better the taser is fired before the crime.
But then there is the chance of human error, of a misfire, of the copper hitting the would-be victim and not the would-be felon, of hitting themself.
What’s required is for the CCTV to come equipped with a taser, and Britain’s law abiding joystick enthusiasts and gamers invited to aim and fire it.
Look out for Thinking Grand theft Auto: Thought Crime coming to a stocking this Christmas.
Come the revolution!!
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November 29th, 2008 at 9:18 am
I don’t think the people who thought this up would even pass the Voight-Kampff test.
November 28th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Do you think the people who ‘thought’ this one up would pass a Turing Test?
Or are the police going to be able to diagnose the many and varied medical causes of ‘unusually slow walking’?
We will need to rewrite the steroid card to include being tasered, but I’m dubious about the chances of even the most enlightened members of the constabulary being able to deal with an adrenal crisis.
On the plus side the lawyers should do well…
November 28th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Wondering how Descartes would respond?