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Minority Report Before it became a movie, Minority Report was a story published in the 1950s by an American author named Philip K. Dick. The author suffered from many psychological conditions such as agoraphobia and paranoia, many in which are apparent through the themes of many of his books. Minority Report tells the story of John Anderton, an officer in a new experimental division of the Washington, D.C. Police, called the Department of Precrime, which was established in 2048. Anderton is the most experienced of all the Precrime officers and has worked in the unit since the very beginning. Precrime utilizes the gifts of three people, called Precognitives, that can see the future before it happens. The "Precogs" didn't receive their gifts naturally, however, instead they were the only t