柏林警方考虑采用软件预测犯罪行为_社会生活

柏林警方考虑采用软件预测犯罪行为

文章来源：未知文章作者：enread 发布时间：2014-12-05 08:04 字体： [大中小]　进入论坛

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When police officers in Minority Report predicted who would commit crimes, and stopped them before they happened, it was considered so futuristic the film was set in 2054.

电影《少数派报告》中的警察能预测谁会犯罪，并在他们实施犯罪之前阻止他们。这样的场景因太过虚幻，所以被设置在2054年。

But, police in Berlin are considering adopting a similar software that predicts crimes and is named 'Precobs' -- in a nod to the sci-fi film.

Other forces, including police officers in two American states and London's Metropolitan¹ Police are also trialling predictive systems to catch would-be criminals.

Developed by a German firm, the software program predicts when and where a crime is most likely to occur, based on different sets of data.

It is being tested by police in the southern state of Bavaria.

'The Berlin police is first waiting for the results of the trial run in Bavaria' before deciding on on whether to acquire Precobs, a spokesman² said.

The name is a contraction³ of 'Pre-Crime Observation System'.

The 'Precobs' title borrows deliberately⁴ from the 'precog' term used in Minority Report referring to three psychics⁵ who predict crimes before they happen.

The 2002 movie starring Tom Cruise⁶ and directed by Steven Spielberg was based on a story by Philip K Dick.

The German Precobs system relies on data of the location, time and other details of past crimes, such as home break-ins.

When a new incident is reported, the software analyses the data to look for a pattern that will point to a future target.

It was developed by the Institute for pattern-based Prediction Technique in Oberhausen.

The initial⁷ results from tests on burglaries in the Bavarian cities of Munich and Nuremberg are 'promising⁸', the state's interior⁹ minister Joachim Herrmann said in a progress report last month.

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1 metropolitan
adj.大城市的，大都会的
参考例句：
Metropolitan buildings become taller than ever.大城市的建筑变得比以前更高。 Metropolitan residents are used to fast rhythm.大都市的居民习惯于快节奏。

2 spokesman
n.发言人，代言人
参考例句：
The government spokesman gave a quick briefing to the reporters.政府发言人向记者们作了情况简介。 They drew lots to decide who should be their spokesman.他们抽签决定谁是他们的发言人。

3 contraction
n.缩略词，缩写式，害病
参考例句：
The contraction of this muscle raises the lower arm.肌肉的收缩使前臂抬起。 The forces of expansion are balanced by forces of contraction.扩张力和收缩力相互平衡。

4 deliberately
adv.审慎地；蓄意地；故意地
参考例句：
The girl gave the show away deliberately.女孩故意泄露秘密。 They deliberately shifted off the argument.他们故意回避这个论点。

5 psychics
心理学，心灵学；（自称）通灵的或有特异功能的人，巫师( psychic的名词复数 )
参考例句：
One week later, I got cops and psychics on my front door. 一礼拜后，警察跟通灵人站到了我家大门口。 Even now Directorate Psychics and powerful drugs are keeping the creature pacified. 即使是现在，联邦部队的精神力和威力强大的药剂还在让这个生物活在沉睡之中。

6 cruise
v.巡航，航游，缓慢巡行；n.海上航游
参考例句：
They went on a cruise to Tenerife.他们乘船去特纳利夫岛。 She wants to cruise the canals of France in a barge.她想乘驳船游览法国的运河。

7 initial
adj.最初的，开始的，词首的；n.首字母，姓名的开头字母；vt.标注姓名的首字母于
参考例句：
After she'd overcome her initial shyness,she became very friendly.她克服了起初的羞怯之后，变得十分友善。 The experiments have given initial results eventually.那些试验总算初见成效了。

8 promising
adj.有希望的，有前途的
参考例句：
The results of the experiments are very promising.实验的结果充满了希望。 We're trying to bring along one or two promising young swimmers.我们正设法培养出一两名有前途的年轻游泳选手。

9 interior
adj.在内的，内部的，内地的，国内的；n.内部
参考例句：
There is water in the interior of the cave.在山洞的内部有水。 They went into the interior room.他们进了内室。