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[privacy] UK: Police Target Dangerous Suspects Before They Can Offend
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:29:45 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The TimesOnline.co.uk. [snip] Criminal profilers are drawing up a list of the 100 most dangerous murderers and rapists of the future even before they commit such crimes, The Times has learnt. The highly controversial database will be used by police and other agencies to target suspects before they can carry out a serious offence. Pilot projects to identify the highest-risk future offenders have been operating in five London boroughs for the past two months. The Soham murderer Ian Huntley and the serial rapist Richard Baker have been used as examples of the type of man police will identify. However, the database will increase concerns at the growth of official surveillance and anxieties that innocent men are being singled out for offences they have no intention of committing. [snip] More: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2473501,00.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.1 (Build 1557) wj8DBQFFammyq1pz9mNUZTMRAl6IAJ9NNDtTdlwoey+zXQoG/Ihn3mqnyQCg4dOw ySPHuKm3vvCgt8lRK4uMamk= =uqQJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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