alt Hacker NewsI think what’s unintentionally eye-opening about this chart is the recency of “law enforcement can read your text communications.”
Law enforcement doesn’t need this surveillance ability at all. All time periods prior to 25 years ago didn’t have it.
Additionally, there is no correlation between “law enforcement reads text messages” and crime rates going down.
Not trying to defend our national dystopian nightmare of a surveillance state — but I'm pretty sure this is wrong?
Crime's been decreasing for years, and (from what I understand) this year is tracking to be one of the safest years on record?
Definitionally, there absolutely has to be a correlation (not causation) between those two factors you listed.
https://ourworldindata.org/us-crime-rates