FC: London police will create database of juvenile miscreants

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 14:16:16 +0200 (EET)
From: Jei <jei () cc hut fi>
To: politech () politechbot com, Matthew Gaylor <freematt () coil com>
Subject: UK Police Starts Profiling of Children

http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,48637,00.html

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   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.

   [...]



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