Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Artificial Intelligence- My column for 6 September 2011

Police intelligence has become an oxymoron. So suspect it is that trust and confidence in this roughly-hewn public emergency has disappeared. And the question is: have the crime bosses outsourced the clean-up of the lower levels of criminal organisations to the state? Clearly, the early emotional support for the state of public emergency has dampened. Imposed with an insufficiency of detail and justification, support was rooted in fear, vulnerability and desperation. But deployed to assail big drug stashes and dismantle gangs, the owner of the cocaine toted through the airport by a 19-year-old has not been held. Mysteries surrounding the big Monos Island cocaine bust are unsolved: "big fish" and "small fish" were prominent terms in that prosecution, without coincidence.

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