--- Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:16:16 +0200 (EET) From: Jei <jeiat_private> To: politechat_private, Matthew Gaylor <freemattat_private> Subject: UK Police Starts Profiling of Children http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48637,00.html Keeping a Who's-Naughty List By [6]Julia Scheeres 2:00 a.m. Nov. 27, 2001 PST London police are planning to register children who exhibit criminal potential in an effort to prevent them from developing into full-fledged lawbreakers. Kids who tag buildings with graffiti, skip school, or even talk back to adults run the risk of being entered into a database program that will be used to monitor their behavior as they grow up, according to police sources. Law enforcement officials say the measure is needed to combat rampant juvenile crime, but critics condemn it as an extreme form of police profiling. The plan was unveiled earlier this month in a speech by Ian Blair, London's deputy police commissioner, to the [25]Youth Justice Board, the government agency that supervises Great Britain's juvenile justice system. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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