He then sees THAT report and realizes that if word gets out that the precogs are false-predicting, it would shut down the Precrime division - because that would mean that they are totally imprisoning innocent people (not to be confused with 'people who just haven't committed a crime... yet') - and everything he had worked for would be gone...

In this PKD novella, crime is stopped before it can actually happen with the help of ‘precogs’ , individuals with altered / enhanced paranormal psychic powers who can take snapshots of the future. When the three mutants are on the same wavelength, they issue a majority report. If one of them dissents, there will be a minority report. Which one is more important? The opinion of the majority or that of the minority? What about when the report refers directly, personally to yourself?

So, basically, here's the deal. I like this story (mostly - there were some illogical conclusions and some plot holes that took it down a bit) if I view it superficially as a SF/dystopian thriller. But the problem is that if I look even a little bit deeper to the implications of what such a society would be like, my enjoyment falls apart and this little story really bothers me.

Anyway, Anderton automatically latches on to the idea that Witwer (who is newly appointed to be Anderton's assistant) is gunning for his job as head honcho... and look, his wife is there too. She's in on it! They been bangin' for weeks, that whore and her young boyfriend Witwer! They want him out of the way! Oh, no? Just in his imagination? Well, can't put nothing past a woman. Anderton don't trust nothin' that can bleed for a week and not die. Just sayin'. For other uses, see Minority Report (disambiguation). "The Minority Report" was originally published in Fantastic Universe in 1956.John Anderton is the founder and head of Precrime, which stops future crimes from occurring by gathering data from three precogs—humans gifted with precognition, now reduced to caged idiot savants as their babble is recorded and collated. The day that a new assistant, Ed Witwer, joins, Anderton receives a report that he will commit a murder of an army general he does not know, Leopold Kaplan. Anderton confronts Kaplan, who harbors doubts about Precrime, and goes on the run with Kaplan’s help. Anderton is chased by Precrime agents and tries to escape with Lisa, also an agent.