Palantir Technologies makes "The Machine". It is custom-made software for secret cyber surveillance systems. They are already being used in 80 cities, the FBI and CIA.

The U.S. Army will get one soon. They signed a $876 million, 10-year contract with Palantir in March.

https://www.stripes.com/news/us/thiel-s-palantir-wins-876-million-us-army-software-contract-1.515974

https://dcgsa.army.mil/about/

Palantir was created by the CIA through its venture capital group called In-Q-Tel. They admit it on their government web sites:

https://www.iqt.org/portfolio/

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/intelligence-history/in-q-tel#author

Contracts between Palantir Technologies and New Orleans, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York (Manhattan), will expire at the end of the month. They are searching, however, for other brands of "predictive policing" software.

"Predictive policing" uses criminal history to anticipate who will commit the next crime, and where. But can the future be determined on past results?

Stock brokers can be fined and jailed if they used past results to project future profits.

What about the information that was never written down by police? It may be significant yet was missed.

Try telling a detective they missed a clue.

So far none of the "predictive policing" software has been able to pinpoint what crime will be committed, when.

Even on TV. The best a fictional "Machine" on "Person of Interest" could do was identify the next victim or perpetrator.