Holy fascist police state, Batman! CTRL + Click to follow link"">Chicago Police, Using 'Heat List,' Go Door-to-Door and Warn Listees Not to Commit Crime --Officials generate analysis to predict who will likely be involved in crime 23 Aug 2013 With the help of mathematical analysis, Chicago police hope to home in on people it believes are most at risk of shooting someone or being shot themselves. The strategy calls for warning those on the heat list individually that further criminal activity, even for the most petty offenses, will result in the full force of the law being brought down on them. The effort, funded by a federal grant from the National Institute of Justice [sic], is formally known as Two Degrees of Association -- an acknowledgment of the importance of the interconnections among those involved in crime. Police officials said they came up with a heat list of about 420 names through a computer analysis, weighting numerous risk factors to come up with a ranking of people who in the worst cases were more than 500 times more likely than average to be involved in violence.