LEARNING PATH // READERS, JOURNALISTS, RESEARCHERS, POLICYMAKERS, CIVIL-RIGHTS REVIEWERS, BEHAVIORAL-SCIENCE PRACTITIONERS, TECHNOLOGISTS, EDUCATORS, AND AFFECTED COMMUNITIES
A sixteen-step path through terminology, behavioral threat assessment, behavioral-science units, person and place prediction, traveler risk, watchlisting, regional cases, technology lifecycle, evaluation, rights, and redress.
Estimated total: 280 minutes
This learning path is repository-authored curation of public educational routes. It records no participant testing, accepts no files or free text, sends no choices to a remote service, and grants no source authentication, specialist approval, accessibility certification, publication authority, operational authority, activation authority, production approval, or tuning authority.
Current review status: WIP.75 source-bounded curriculum — independent policing, behavioral-science, legal, civil-rights, scientific, accessibility, and affected-community review pending
A neutral guide to behavioral threat assessment, predictive policing algorithms, behavioral-science investigative units, watchlisting, traveler-risk analysis, and the governance of anticipatory state action.
/psyops/pre-crimeDistinguish retrieval, identity resolution, association, mapping, forecasting, person scoring, threat assessment, watchlisting, and coercive action.
/psyops/pre-crime/definitions-and-boundariesA source-bounded examination of BTAC, NTAC, structured professional judgment, targeted-violence prevention, low base rates, services, intervention, and civil-liberties boundaries.
/psyops/pre-crime/behavioral-threat-assessmentHow specialized behavioral-science units support investigations, threat assessment, interviewing, research, training, consultation, and case management without becoming mind-reading engines.
/psyops/pre-crime/behavioral-science-investigative-unitsRisk scores, priority tiers, hot-person lists, victimization/offending models, persistent designations, police-contact feedback, and due-process consequences.
/psyops/pre-crime/person-based-predictive-policingA technical and sociotechnical audit of crime maps, near-repeat models, hotspot forecasting, patrol allocation, vendor claims, causal evaluation, displacement, and reporting loops.
/psyops/pre-crime/place-based-forecasting-and-feedback-loopsFAST, SPOT, Quiet Skies, Secure Flight, ATS, watchlists, anomaly rules, behavior observation, field tests, operational screening, and scientific-evidence limits.
/psyops/pre-crime/traveler-risk-and-malintentA decision-chain guide from intelligence nomination and identity resolution through watchlist acceptance, downstream screening, encounter handling, retention, quality control, and redress.
/psyops/pre-crime/watchlisting-and-screeningWhat the 2026 Sources Sought notice establishes, what it does not establish, and why federated retrieval, entity correlation, synthesis, provenance, and visualization still create consequential governance questions.
/psyops/pre-crime/fbi-threat-screening-ai-initiativePRECOBS, SKALA, KrimPro, the Netherlands Crime Anticipation System, and the distinction between prohibited individual crime prediction and regulated law-enforcement uses under the EU AI Act.
/psyops/pre-crime/europe-and-eu-ai-actNDAS, HART, the Gangs Violence Matrix, the Violence Harm Assessment successor, and emerging AI-supported crime mapping—separated by function, deployment state, and consequence.
/psyops/pre-crime/united-kingdomChicago’s Strategic Subject List and CVRM, LAPD LASER chronic-offender bulletins, and Pasco County intelligence-led policing—compared by target, method, intervention, feedback, and evidence.
/psyops/pre-crime/united-states-hot-people-programsIJOP, Police Cloud, Golden Shield, Skynet, Sharp Eyes, big-data platforms, proactive warning, large-model interfaces, and the difference between integration, alerting, prediction, and coercive governance.
/psyops/pre-crime/chinaIndia’s CCTNS, ICJS, CMAPS, state analytics, biometrics, and hotspot research alongside Australia’s NSW Suspect Targeting Management Plan and Operation Tepito.
/psyops/pre-crime/india-and-australiaA comparative inventory of predictive policing, threat assessment, watchlisting, traveler-risk analysis, biometric surveillance, public-security platforms, and anticipatory intervention across jurisdictions.
/psyops/pre-crime/global-comparison-and-governanceA lifecycle model from collection and ingestion through identity matching, feature construction, modeling, deployment, scoring, analyst review, intervention, feedback, updating, retention, correction, deletion, and retirement.
/psyops/pre-crime/technology-stack-evaluation-and-redress