alt Hacker News> Politicians are completely naive in their understand how people works, if it's abused, the system isn't locked down enough or that one person circumvented the procedure. They completely fail to understand that there exists people to whom you cannot grant access and screening people in advance probably impossible. Some cop checks all the boxes, gets access to databases, then their partner leaves them and they are now no longer safe to grant access.
I don’t think it’s naïveté. I think it’s an acceptable byproduct to them. It’s collateral damage in their war on ??? crime? insecurity? or in their lobby kickbacks.
Good point. A lot of politicians are in fact in favor of (or at least indifferent towards) increased state surveillance for the sake of asserting the state’s power over the working public.
Politicians want a strong law enforcement that protects the status quo of an upper class who has impunity regarding the law to the point where they can host a sex trafficking ring on a private island.
Working people used to have vandalism and sabotage as a tactic when the state and capital wrought the working public this way, but with the modern surveillance state this tactic has been completely neutralized. This is the world that politicians want.