No, I think precogs would have been required to prevent this case, which is why I used the words “this case”.
Also, I’m not following, people are fleeing SF because bandyaboot on hn thinks precogs are required to prevent “any level” of crime? I didn’t know I had that much clout! And my clout transcends temporal cause and effect!
In what way would precogs have absolutely been required here? This was out in the open in a public place. Ever considered that if there were ample police people wouldn’t be so brazen as to commit murder in public, better yet, police could have potentially prevented it from happening or assisted after the fact. The fact that many SF can’t even imagine another way this could have been prevented is exactly why they can’t fix it… and exactly why people are fleeing. Don’t delude yourself.
Either the killing was pre-planned in which case Momeni would have found or created an opportunity to carry it out regardless, or it was a fit of rage situation in which case you would need to have multiple police per city block at all times for there to be a reasonable likelihood that an officer could intervene in time to prevent incidents like this. Random crime you can police your way out of to some degree. This? No.
Of course this is all assuming the arrested individual did it.
