Precrime

Precrime is the location where the precogs are housed, and where the equipment is set up for their predictions to be transformed from incoherent babblings into usable printed data. Anderton and Lisa work at Precrime, and the story begins with Anderton giving his new assistant Witwer a tour of the facilities. In the story’s sixth section, Wally Page helps fugitive Anderton break back into Precrime, so that he can access and copy the information on the minority report.

New York City

New York City is the setting of the story and the location where Precrime is based. In the world of the story, the recent war has caused significant damage to the land, with the countryside dotted with craters from bombs and ruined farms and industrial plants. The story being set in New York City also marks one of the fundamental differences between the story and the...