The Tom Cruise vehicle, Minority Report, painted a near-future cinematic picture of a law enforcement unit predicting murders before they occurred and catching the criminals before they committed the crime.
This link via Wired News demonstrates that this scenario wasn't quite as far-fetched as you might think with this Yonkers Journal News story of police departments using PC's to accurately predict where a crime will occur next and dispatching police to the area to wait for it to happen.
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