Psycho-Pass

[Buffalobiian]

Akane's special purpose in life is to humanize the Enforcers. Maybe even bring them back down to acceptable levels. She doesn't bring peace to the people they are tasked with bringing in or killing, she brings peace to those who police the city. All they ever see outside anymore is the worst society has to offer.

Kogami has already expressed a desire to be more of a detective than a hunting dog. He likes the brain work. He's not jealous of Masaoka's raw instincts. He admires them, but when he opened up to Akane a little bit, he admitted that he would like to not simply punish people by hunting them down, but track them down. He wants to be what she was allowed to be.

Will humanising them bring their psycho-pass down? If so, perhaps it's not really a good thing, since the reason the Enforcers are there is because their psycho-passes are high. They have the ability for criminal activity, but choose not to (or are forced not to) and instead work for the law.

[Kraco]

Will humanising them bring their psycho-pass down? If so, perhaps it's not really a good thing, since the reason the Enforcers are there is because their psycho-passes are high. They have the ability for criminal activity, but choose not to (or are forced not to) and instead work for the law.

It's clear the psycho-pass rating does have a solid, undebatable basis, otherwise the system wouldn't have such a huge effect in the society. So, it should be impossible to "save" these people by bringing their rating down. After all, at least some of them were brought in before they had a chance to really do any crimes. However, Akane's role might be to make them feel themselves humans once again, not dogs, despite the high rating. A small thing in the bigger picture but it could be a big thing for them personally.

There are lots of latent criminals out there that haven't become real criminals because of their otherwise successful circumstances. It's not like a crime has much value in itself, it's more like a means to an end. Even the world in this show has lots of people like that wandering around, despite the scanners.