> Think mafia. Sure the thug did illegal crap and you know it, but he isn’t worth arresting. You want the boss.
I can't imagine a scenario where blowing up an airplane full of civilians would fall into the category of "not worth arresting".
> Or to use a more scifi spin: Data science says you are 99% likely to blow up a plane.
That's fiction for a reason--there's no possible way to know that from "data science". In the real world, you can know that from things like direct evidence that this person is involved in a plot to blow up an airplane, which is something they can be arrested for.
> I can't imagine a scenario where blowing up an airplane full of civilians would fall into the category of "not worth arresting".
If you are confident in your ability to stop them at the checkpoint if they actually try to board a plane, why arrest immediately when you can try to obtain more leads?
I can't imagine a scenario where blowing up an airplane full of civilians would fall into the category of "not worth arresting".
> Or to use a more scifi spin: Data science says you are 99% likely to blow up a plane.
That's fiction for a reason--there's no possible way to know that from "data science". In the real world, you can know that from things like direct evidence that this person is involved in a plot to blow up an airplane, which is something they can be arrested for.