How the police wants to use AI and analytics to 'adopt a public-health approach to crime'

A significant step on the road towards the UK becoming "an inevitable dystopian hellscape", is how one article characterised the National Data Analytics Solution (NDAS) project being run by the West Midlands Police. Another headline claimed that it marks a "descent into state surveillance". One publication asked whether "Minority Report is now a reality", while another site described the scheme as "Minority Report-lite", and yet another called NDAS "the real Minority Report". Style magazine Dazed at least mixed things up a bit in terms of its cinematic references, suggesting that the project had "Robocop vibes". Even the website of celebrity conspiracy theorist David Icke was moved to post about the programme, labelling UK law enforcement as "the thought police".