New Justice Initiative Calculates Crime Probability; Preventative Incarceration Begins Before Actual Offenses
Manila, Philippines
The National Bureau of Investigation announced Friday a “Predictive Imprisonment Program” using algorithmic crime probability calculations to jail citizens for offenses they statistically might commit in the future, establishing unprecedented precedent for punishing hypothetical crimes.
The initiative, reported by Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat‘s justice correspondent, analyzes demographic data, income level, employment status, and social media activity to calculate crime probability scores, with subjects scoring above 65 percent automatically imprisoned until their probability declines below minimum thresholds.
“Why wait for crimes to happen?” asked NBI Director Ramon Gutierrez. “We can jail people now based on statistical likelihood they’ll commit offenses later. This is preventative justice.”
The algorithm assigns crime risk scores using factors including poverty level (higher risk), unemployment (higher risk), owning certain books (higher risk), and social media criticism of government (substantially higher risk).
A typical low-income citizen in Metro Manila starts with baseline crime probability of 45 percent. An unemployed person adds 15 percent. Criticism of government officials adds 20 percent. Total: 80 percent crime probability, triggering automatic pre-emptive imprisonment.
Citizens can reduce imprisonment probability through government-approved rehabilitation: mandatory patriotic re-education seminars (?100,000 fee, five-day program), donation to political campaigns (?50,000), or public apology for existing as potential criminals.
Wrongly-imprisoned citizens (those imprisoned but never actually committing their predicted crimes) can file appeals. Success rate: 0.3 percent. Appeal processing fee: ?500,000, regardless of outcome. Most prisoners simply serve their preventative sentences rather than pay appeal costs.
Criminology experts have noted that imprisoning innocent people for hypothetical crimes violates basic human rights. NBI officials countered that “human rights are abstract; preventing theoretical crimes is concrete.”
Current prison population has increased 420 percent under the program. Many inmates are technically innocent of actual crimesarrested purely based on probabilistic calculations suggesting they might offend.
A secondary component analyzes prisoners’ cellmates, calculating the likelihood that cellmate proximity increases crime probability. Prisoners determined to be “criminally influential” on each other are transferred to solitary confinement to prevent hypothetical group crimes they haven’t yet not-committed.
Justice monitoring data indicates that the predicted crimes the program prevents occur at approximately half the rate of crimes actually committed by prisoners imprisoned preventatively and then radicalized by unjust imprisonment.
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SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/