Chapter 1270 A Better Way

"Mr. Arndt, are you okay?"

The doctor's voice brought Pete Arndt back to his senses. "Ah, yes."

He subconsciously tightened the pen in his hand. Due to his momentary distraction, the tip of the pen left an ugly ink mark on the signature column of the document in his hand.

Looking at the description in the terms that his wife was brain dead, had no ability to breathe independently, and her brain waves showed equipotential, the man showed a sad face and signed his name with trembling.

The doctor took the documents from him, nodded to the assistant and nurse beside him, and they stepped forward to remove the life support system.

Seeing the image on the ECG monitor turn into a straight line, the corners of Pete Arndt's mouth twitched, making his originally sad expression appear slightly distorted.

Two days later, in a cemetery, Jiejie watched the entire funeral from afar until the coffin was buried. She finally asked the question in her mind, "Since you suspect this is a murder disguised as a car accident, why do you make things so complicated?"

"Because this matter is not under my jurisdiction, someone needs to come and settle it personally." Jack handed a photo to Jiejie. It showed Jessica and a man in army uniform.

If Hannah were there, she might be able to recognize that the man in military uniform was John Reese from the CIA, who had encountered them several times in Los Angeles and always had a stern face and tried to be cool.

In the photo, Jessica had a happy expression on her face and rested her head on Reese's shoulder.

During these two days, Jack did a lot.

The next day, Marshal Samuels arrived in Atlantic City at Jack's request and directly placed Jessica, who had not yet regained consciousness, into the WPP (Federal Witness Protection Program).

Then, a fake death scene was staged with the cooperation of a doctor, which successfully deceived Pete Arndt and made Jessica a "dead person".

At the same time, in order to prevent himself from making a mistake, Jack visited Jessica's mother as a federal agent and found the photo among Jessica's "belongings".

So someone's ex-girlfriend became one of the witnesses in an important financial fraud case without her knowledge, and her identity was changed at the official level.

"A CIA agent who faked his own death and escaped? What's so special about him that you would use all your connections and go to such great lengths just to protect his ex-girlfriend? There must be a reason for their breakup. Maybe they no longer love each other."

Jiejie was very puzzled. If she was not sure that Jack and Jessica were strangers and the latter was just an average-looking woman, she would even suspect whether the two had had some special experience.

You have to know that Jack used more than just his connections in the Marshals Service. It is impossible for Marshal Samuels to break the rules and force Jessica into WPP just because of a favor.

Dana Moger and Rossi are still waiting in New York for someone to come back and give her a reasonable explanation.

"Have you seen the movie "Minority Report"? " Jack opened the car door for Jiejie very gentlemanly and helped her fasten her seat belt.

Jiejie asked in surprise, "You mean he has the ability to predict the future?"

Jack couldn't help but laugh, leaning over and kissing her slightly opened red lips, "What are you thinking about? How could such a thing be possible in this world?"

After starting the Suburban and driving away from the cemetery, he continued to explain, "What I want to say is, if one day we can predict the occurrence of criminal acts in advance, do you think this is a good thing or a bad thing?"

"Isn't this what we and the NSA are doing? By monitoring the behavior of people with terrorist tendencies in the country to prevent possible terrorist attacks."

Jiejie expressed confusion and said she didn't understand what he was trying to say.

Jack thought about it and decided to use a more specific way of expression. "You know that NYPD Chief Reagan successfully persuaded the City Council to allocate funds last year to add 20 high-definition cameras to public places throughout New York City in the next three years, right?"

After Jiejie nodded, he continued to ask, "So suppose someone invented an artificial intelligence that can perform big data analysis very efficiently.

What do you think will happen if we can predict possible murders in advance through information collected from cameras in various public places, even from private home security systems and even personal mobile phones? "

Jiejie tilted her head and thought about it. She didn't get caught up in thinking about her privacy as Jack imagined. Instead, she just laughed out loud, "Then we might be very busy."

"Well, you're right." Jack was also amused.

Compared to their counterparts on the other side of the ocean, American police actually have an easier job. After all, there is no mandatory requirement to solve murder cases, and their titles do not have the word "people" in front of them, which makes people feel overwhelmed.

But the problem is the extremely high crime rate here.

Forget about predicting murders. In the murders that happen every day in this country, even if we exclude the gangs and street thugs fighting each other,

For murders that occur among ordinary citizens, such as murders caused by passion, premeditated murder, robbery, and burglary, a 5% clearance rate means that the city or region has relatively good public security and is well-equipped with police force and resources.

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When she was at BAU, Jiejie's job was to screen difficult cases from all over the country, so the files on her desk were always the highest.

At that time, Jiejie's phone was the busiest of everyone else. Every day, she received countless requests for help from police stations across the country, and these had already been preliminarily checked and screened by other departments of the FBI.

A similar situation exists with today's wanted criminal team. Jubal looks through the wanted list every day. Although the names on it keep disappearing, there are always more new names appearing on it, as if there is no end.

If many problems are not addressed from their essence and root causes, they will only become an endless and useless effort of suppressing one problem but causing another.

Of course, saving innocent lives can never be considered a wasted effort.

Jack didn't really want to use the distorted word "Saint Mary" to describe Harold Finch, a noble man in the original play who was willing to risk his life to save the lives of innocent people, but he couldn't find a more appropriate word.

A person's thoughts or world views depend not only on his social status, but also on where he sits.

Jack is one of the few people in this country who can look at various social issues from a relatively objective perspective and at the same time possesses certain abilities.

Therefore, someone who loved "Knight Rider" in childhood thought that Harold Finch might have chosen a better way to realize his ideals.