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From: laura@haddock.UUCP
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk,rec.arts.sf-lovers
Subject: Future Police Speculations Needed
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Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 11:15:29 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 22 11:15:29 1987
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What will a police station/police fortress be like in the 2030's?

I am in the process of writing Yet Another Great American
Cyberpunk Novel (or at any rate a novel with touches of cyber
in it; not too much punk; but the world is Gibson-esque), and
knowing what fertile minds netters have, and knowing how easy
it would be for me to miss the obvious and leave out the
inevitable, I thought I'd ask for some ideas.

The world the story is set in is darker than this one, but not
thoroughly hostile yet.  Society is affluent enough that computers
are all-pervasive, and most learning and working is done while
jacked in.  Organ theft is the major crime, along with the usual
mugging, murder, robbery, etc., not to mention electronic crime.

What changes will have taken place to allow the police to deal
with crime fifty or sixty years from now?  What will the police
be like?

It's a very minor part of the story, but I'd like to get it right.
Any ideas you have, send them along.  (And if I ever get published
you can have your name in print in the acknowledgements if you want).

Thanks in advance.
-- 
    Yet another missive from
    The writer in the closet 
{harvard | think}!ima!haddock!laura
"Think of it as evolution in action." -- Oath of Fealty