Comment Re:In other words, you're doing it wrong. (Score 4, Insightful) 60
This is what scares most people, or at least me, about ideas of using big data to predict criminals or otherwise mess up people's lives.
It's not a problem to use big data to try to figure out where to focus. But you have to subject the results to some sanity checking, and before you actually impact someone's life, perhaps even some common sense. Shocking idea, I know, and the reason why it's still a problem.