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, a Chicago 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.
They are doing it backwards. You need 3 or 4 people in a neighborhood for those there to talk to that live there and have proof they should the undesirable leave. Let them call the police and talk to them. Then the police go and talk to the undesirable and suggest they be gone in 72 hours for there own safety. After that time they are free to harm people. The police can come out and talk to them again as they are put in the ambulance. If they wish.
WTF?!
Exactly, RT.
Dude, on this site we don’t advocate calling the cops for ANY reason.
Not if you’re fond of breathing, that is.
LOL! I thought it was just me, I read it 3 times.
TY #1 🙂
Some people’s kids, eh?
Sorry, but I just simply cannot parse that second sentence. 🙁
Unfortunate for you (And even worse for the people here) Joe…….I was going to say something pretty nasty to ya there Joe, give me a reason not to do that. What exactly don’t ya understand there Joe?
YEA OK YOU COP CALLER Not my turn as I do not call cops but I guess you do you POS james bergen, good thing I do not know you you pos!!! by the way just where do you live you F`er