[102740] in Cypherpunks
Re: Predictions: Crime and Criminal Justice in the 21st Century
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nnburk)
Tue Sep 15 21:08:36 1998
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:45:27 -0700
From: nnburk <nnburk@cobain.HDC.NET>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, Sunder <sunder@brainlink.com>
Reply-To: nnburk <nnburk@cobain.HDC.NET>
Sunder wrote:
>
> nnburk wrote:
> >
> > Predictions: Crime and Criminal Justice in the 21st Century
> > ...
> > 2. As the large pool of young people born in the early 1990s
> > become teenagers and young adults, there will be a dramatic
> > increase in violent crime around the year 2005-2010.
>
> I don't necessarily see this. What do you base this on?
Um, actually, not _my_ predictions. Source was local LEA, obtained by them from some
nameless seminar. (Sorry. Should have made that point clear earlier.)
> > 5. As faith in the criminal justice system declines, there
> > will be a rise in vigilante-based incidents where citizens take
> > the enforcement of crime problems into their own hands.
>
> The rest of your prediction sounds like you've watched Robocop a few times too
> many and actually BELIEVED it! :) Care to back it up with reasons?
>
See above. <grin> Actually, haven't seen Robocop!
