When police officers in Minority Report predicted who would commit crimes, and stopped them before they happened, it was considered so futuristic the film was set in 2054.

電影《少數派報告》中的警察能預測誰會犯罪，并在他們實施犯罪之前阻止他們。這樣的場景因太過虛幻，所以被設置在2054年。

But, police in Berlin are considering adopting a similar software that predicts crimes and is named ‘Precobs’ - in a nod to the sci-fi film.

然而德國柏林警方最近在考慮采用與之相似的軟件以預測犯罪行為，并將其命名為“Precobs”——以此向該科幻電影致敬。

Other forces, including police officers in two American states and London’s Metropolitan Police are also trialling predictive systems to catch would-be criminals.

美國兩個州和英國倫敦警察署等一些國家警力也在試驗預測系統，用以協助找到潛在犯罪人員。

Developed by a German firm, the software program predicts when and where a crime is most likely to occur, based on different sets of data.

這項軟件項目由德國一家公司研發，基于對多組數據的研究以預測犯罪最有可能發生的時間地點。

It is being tested by police in the southern state of Bavaria.

德國巴戈利亞州（Bavaria）南部的警署正試用該軟件。

‘The Berlin police is first waiting for the results of the trial run in Bavaria’ before deciding on on whether to acquire Precobs, a spokesman said.

一位發言人稱：“柏林警方要先等待巴戈利亞州測驗結果，然后決定是否采用Precobs系統。”

The name is a contraction of ‘Pre-Crime Observation System’.

“Precobs”的全稱是“預防犯罪觀測系統”（Pre-Crime Observation System）。

The ‘Precobs’ title borrows deliberately from the ‘precog’ term used in Minority Report referring to three psychics who predict crimes before they happen.

該詞顯然引用了電影《少數派報告》中的“Precog”一詞，這個詞指影片中可預知人們的犯罪行為的三名“先知”。

The 2002 movie starring Tom Cruise and directed by Steven Spielberg was based on a story by Philip K Dick.

這部2002年公映的電影由湯姆·克魯斯主演，斯蒂文·斯皮爾伯格導演，改編自菲利普·迪克的小說。

The German Precobs system relies on data of the location, time and other details of past crimes, such as home break-ins.

德國的Precobs系統主要依據為先前犯罪行為發生的位置和時間等數據，如入室盜竊。

When a new incident is reported, the software analyses the data to look for a pattern that will point to a future target.

一旦有新案件被錄入，該軟件就會分析數據，找到可指出未來犯罪目標的犯罪模式。

It was developed by the Institute for pattern-based Prediction Technique in Oberhausen.

這項技術由德國奧伯豪森州的模式圖預測技術研究所研發。

The initial results from tests on burglaries in the Bavarian cities of Munich and Nuremberg are ‘promising’, the state's interior minister Joachim Herrmann said in a progress report last month.

巴戈利亞州內政部部長若阿欣·赫爾曼（Joachim Herrmann）在上月的進度報告中講道，來自慕尼黑和紐倫堡的部分巴戈利亞城市的入室盜竊案測試結果初步顯示Precobs是“有成效的”。

But a civil rights activist voiced concern in Tuesday's Berliner Zeitung that personal data could eventually be used, instead of the currently anonymous information.

不過，一位民權活動家在柏林12月2日發行的報紙Berliner Zeitung中表示，雖然目前該系統使用的的數據是匿名信息，但他擔心個人數據最終還是會被其利用。

（翻譯：佳木China 編輯：Julie）