London police use super recognizers to fight crime

Well, why not be a selfless biovegetable strapped down for some twisted kind of obscure use as a glorified sensor by someone else's software? I can see how the military were the first to get in to that! Talk about lack of ethics.

Policing precrime will likely be a thing that catches on.

The thing that's catching on is totalitarianism, which, simply put, is "policing" everything, everywhere, all the time, even though nobody did anything to warrant it.

Having this capability is also good for counterinsurgence, which many states seem to be investing in these days.

Err ... s/investing in/using as an excuse to spy on and curtail the rights of their own citizens/