Premiere Date - October 1, 2017
A year after the death of his daughter, Jeffrey Tanner (Jeremy Piven) decides to concentrate all of his time and resources on a new crowd sourcing app, SOPHE, designed to help solve the murder of his daughter, Mia, after believing the wrong person had been convicted. He soon uses the app to help solve other cases. Tanner believes its millions of users would be able to solve what the police couldn't.
SOPHE is designed to accumulate shared information online, effectively deputizing the internet to develop and explore leads and generally play detective.
SOPHE is designed to accumulate shared information online, effectively deputizing the internet to develop and explore leads and generally play detective.
Tanner's team includes, Sara (Natalie Tena) SOPHE'S engineer and also Tanner's current love interest, Josh (Blake Lee) as Head of programmer and Tariq ( Jake Matthews), a hacker who got on the team after hacking into SOPHE.
There is also Alex (Monica Potter) a congress woman and Tanner's ex wife as well as Detective Cavanaugh (Richard T. Jones) who works the cases Sophe gets a lead on and also the initial investigator assigned to solve Mia's case.
Cavanaugh is skeptic about Tanner's software as he believes people's constitutional rights are being violated.
Cavanaugh is skeptic about Tanner's software as he believes people's constitutional rights are being violated.
I like this show, its quite entertaining. It joins other shows like 'Bull' where the use of technology in solving crime is used in a similar way.
I don't like that sometimes the use of sophe invades on people's privacy, especially when its done without their consent.
I also don't like that the users do not pay attention. I get that "People want to be a part of something meaningful" but they could also be putting themselves in harms way, like when a crowd of sophe users identifies a suspect at a busy train station, they don't listen to warnings not to get close, they all gather round him.
There's another case in the second episode where sophe is solving the case of a missing high school student. As they track the boy using a tracking device placed on the boy's jacket by his parents, there is this user on wheels who is close to where the tracker is spotted. He didn't pay attention not to get close as he quickly moved to the scene and picked up the jacket. What if the kidnapper was around, you are on wheels, you can't even run. You trying to play cop at the expense of endangering your life.
Sophe just needs the users help in gethering information and not for them to play cop, going towards a crime scene. I guess when you give people the chance to partake in crime solving, they feel they are now working with the police because "People want to be a part of something Meaningful."
I don't like that sometimes the use of sophe invades on people's privacy, especially when its done without their consent.
I also don't like that the users do not pay attention. I get that "People want to be a part of something meaningful" but they could also be putting themselves in harms way, like when a crowd of sophe users identifies a suspect at a busy train station, they don't listen to warnings not to get close, they all gather round him.
There's another case in the second episode where sophe is solving the case of a missing high school student. As they track the boy using a tracking device placed on the boy's jacket by his parents, there is this user on wheels who is close to where the tracker is spotted. He didn't pay attention not to get close as he quickly moved to the scene and picked up the jacket. What if the kidnapper was around, you are on wheels, you can't even run. You trying to play cop at the expense of endangering your life.
Sophe just needs the users help in gethering information and not for them to play cop, going towards a crime scene. I guess when you give people the chance to partake in crime solving, they feel they are now working with the police because "People want to be a part of something Meaningful."
There are questions of privacy and ethics in the tech age to explore in this series. Its an interesting show and I will keep watching.
So, do you think turning crime solving over to the public using the internet is a good idea?
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