Fear the Future (any day now...)

Because life isn't cool enough to imitate art, it has to imitate crappy Tom Cruise movies.

But the presence of the police officers in the garage that Friday afternoon in July was anything but ordinary: They were directed to the parking structure by a computer program that had predicted that car burglaries were especially likely there that day.

You know where this is going, right?  We're going to surrender our law enforcement to robots.  And it's not going to be awesome like what happened in Detroit in the 80's.

Look how well that turned out, though.

What happens when you turn the already over militarized police force into the servants of a machine that can predict crime?  What happens when those cops are encouraged to help justify the expense of that program and the erosion of liberty?