Pre-Crime ‘Heat List’ Begins In Chicago: Is This The Next Stage Of The Police State Unfolding?
Before It’s News – by Live Free or Die
Chicago police have created a ‘heat list’, a list of names of people whom they will soon be paying visits to, not for committing any crimes but because THEY MIGHT commit crimes in the future. They’ll also soon be paying visits to those who MIGHT be possible victims as well. How do they know who might be soon be committing crimes or possible victims? Isn’t this diving a bit more into Orwellian ‘police state’ territory? When will the FEDS use all of the data that they’ve gotten from the NSA to ’round up’ Americans, pre-crime style? The revmichellehopkins has a very interesting take on ‘pre-crime’ in the video below.
Working from a list of people deemed most likely to become shooters or victims, aChicago Police commander is expected to start knocking on their doors Friday and deliver letters warning them not to commit any violent crimes.
The “custom notifications” are a pilot program in the Austin District on the West Side. Austin District Cmdr. Barbara West plans to deliver letters to 20 people on a so-called “heat list,” officials said.
The heat list stems from work by Andrew Papachristos, a Yale University professor who studied murders between 2005 and 2010 on the West Side. He found 70 percent of the killings were in a social network of 1,600 people out of a total population of 80,000.
The citywide social network of violence includes more than 16,000 people, police Supt. Garry McCarthy said. The department narrowed that list to more than 400 “hot people” most likely to commit shootings or become victims — or 20 people per police district.
The letters will warn those on the list that they will face the most serious charges possible if they’re arrested for a violent crime.
“The custom notifications are the next step in the evolution of putting those guys on notice that they have the highest propensity for homicide,” McCarthy said. “We’re saying, ‘We know who you are, we know what you do and your chance of dying in a homicide is much greater than John Q. Citizen.
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