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Shuusei Kagari ([personal profile] hedonistic) wrote in [community profile] futurology 2017-03-08 01:13 pm (UTC)

The short answer's no. The long answer's that it's more of a half truth. See, we use this tech to scan people's brains and give a whole report on how stressed they are, how overall stable, how likely they are to commit a crime.

For the most part, the system does what it says--most people you'll run into on the street were designated as normal and safe, because the rest have been locked away in facilities as latent criminals.

But despite what the government would like people to think, no system is actually perfect. There's always the people on the fringes, the ones who know how to dodge the street scanners and commit crimes without getting busted. Most people can't pull it off, because it takes resources and planning that's tough to get away with when just planning is enough to ruin your Crime Coefficient--but us Enforcers wouldn't have a job if it never happened. Hell, before I got here, we were after a murderer that took out one of our own three years ago, before the case went cold.

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