"Precrime" and Speilberg movie

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   OED does not list "precrime" anywhere.  It's a hot word right now, and
this is from today's Drudge Report:


XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THURSDAY JUNE 13, 2002 11:09:24 ET XXXX


SPIELBERG SIDES WITH BUSH ON FBI PRECRIME; DREAMWORKS EXEC CALLS ASHCROFT
'SCARY'

**Exclusive**

The DREAMWORKSFOX production MINORITY REPORT depicts a future where you can
be charged for future crimes you haven't yet committed.

"The guilty are arrested before the law is broken," warns a heavy-rotation TV
advert for the film, subtly placed during national and local news programs
this week reporting the United States has detained, indefinitely, but has not
criminally charged Jose Padilla for allegedly <A HREF="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20020613/ts_usatoday/4190019&printer=1">preparing a plan</A> to commit
terror.
(...)

"We set the clock [in the movie] in the 2050s, but it looks like we are
already there," claimed the top DREAMWORKS executive. "Please let him say he
is creating a Department of Precrime!"

As a new GALLUP <A HREF="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020611/ap_wo_en_po/us_terrorism_poll_3">poll shows 4 out of 5</A> Americans willing to give up some
freedom for more security Spielberg and associates have launched the movie
website tie-in <A HREF="http://www.precrime.org/">precrime.org</A> -- which includes a dramatic public service
announcement mocking a "future" government's attempt to "prevent" crimes.