New TechnologiesMinority Report: Predictive Algorithms Will Be Used to Identify Potential Criminals. Posted on April 16, 2025 by Administrator The British Ministry of Justice is advancing in its initiative to create an algorithmic tool aimed at predicting which individuals convicted of crimes might escalate to committing homicide. Known internally as the Homicide Prediction Project, the undertaking emerged through Freedom of Information requests from the civil liberties group Statewatch, which flagged the project as concerning.