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New Initiative Encourages Philly Cops to Harrass Those Predicted as “Likely To Offend”
Kimberly Paxton
A new program in Philadelphia plans to keep the city safer by locking up those most likely to shoot someone. You read that right – not by arresting those who have committed a crime with a gun – but by predicting who is the most likely to offend. The program, called GunStat, targets two small, low-income areas of the city. According to the Inquirer Daily News the police and assistant DAs identify the most likely violent offenders and then wage a campaign of harassment aimed at finding a way to imprison the targets.
The program institutes higher bails (bail for an offense that used to be $10,000 is now $200,000), hard time for mere gun possession charges.  ”You can have a guy who just has a basic [violation of the Uniform Firearms Act] gun case, but they know he’s part of this larger issue and can prioritize,” Managing Director Rich Negrin said. “So, a run-of-the-mill, standard gun case that might get probation is not going to get probation. They’re going to argue for a high bail on that guy.” The GunStat program is not unique to Philedelphia – similar programs exists in Baltimore and Washington DC. District Attorney Williams defended the program to The Philedelphia Tribune. “We work with the captains of a particular district to identify who certain offenders are …†Williams said. “We have these individuals under surveillance, observe them and build a case from that.â€
Only eight years ago, the movie Minority Report was released.  The movie portrayed a futuristic world in which a special police force called the PreCrime Unit was able to arrest murderers before they committed the actual crime. Director Steven Spielberg stated “that the arrest of criminals before they have a chance to commit their crimes in the movie had some real world background in post 9/11 America, commenting that “[w]e’re giving up some of our freedom so that the government can protect us” and that  ”he would be against a PreCrime system if it were ever possible, as he believes that if it did exist, those in control of it would undoubtedly abuse its powers.” Predictive programming, anyone?  ~Hat tip to Joe ~ Delivered by The Daily Sheeple Contributed by Kimberly Paxton of www.TheDailySheeple.com. Kimberly Paxton, a staff writer for the Daily Sheeple, is based out of upstate New York. This content may be freely reproduced in full or in part in digital form with full attribution to the author and a link to www.TheDailySheeple.com. Leave A Comment... |
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where are you all?
the Watcher???????
total lack of comments???
apparently yall aint aware of the problems with these niggers come live in my neighborhood for a week shit you prolly won’t last a day!!! these monkey animal need to get locked in a cage because thats what they are monkey animals don’t worry white poeple you still gonna get to smoke your weed on the d/l and cheat on your wife police aint comin after you this is for real criminals fraidy ass white people–NEW WORLD ORDER!!!!
Go get educated…Loosers like you need a cell
go back to starbucks cracker! you’ll be safe there
Looking at phillys failure to stop or find real criminals, um how can they predict. Too much like tea leaf reading or a crystal ball. Doubt if many premeditate,lots of impulse.