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From this, I'd expect parallel construction cases (circumvention of legal protections) to trickle down to the municipal level and become the new standard for po
by cryoshon 11y ago
From this, I'd expect parallel construction cases (circumvention of legal protections) to trickle down to the municipal level and become the new standard for policework, which is to say the new standard of policework would be extralegal. This change would happen via NSA sharing data with FBI, DEA, or DOJ, which typically have municipal or regional intelligence nexus centers where the federal and state governments collaborate.
So, what does this change look like in practice? For one, we'll move much closer to having the capacity for 100% enforcement, which would be even more disastrous than the over-enforcement that the USA has already suffered for the drug war years. Having the capacity for more enforcement doesn't mean that it will be exercised directly. Instead, I'd expect a lot of dossier-sharing in order to apprise local authorities about the intimate details of the people in their area.
From the dossiers and social networks, local authorities will have a very detailed view of the population they occupy, and will likely be able to directly infiltrate nearly any social group where strangers connect. This means that any kind of civil disobedience or political protests will be (further, more exhaustively) defused well before mattering. Additionally, it'll make harassment of police-accountability activists even easier once the federal level dossiers are handed down to the local police and paired with realtime facial recognition identification from the squad car.
TBH we suffered under a level of surveillance worse than Stasi or 1984 well before this change, so I guess it's not much worse to throw out the legal system's paltry protections known as due process. The bigger problem is the open acknowledgement from the federal government that the citizens have no agency and need to be controlled.
- sitkack 11y agoWith my limited experience of talking with federal prosecutor interns in a bar in DC, they would be very excited at these prospects. The general feeling, was that anyone interacting with a federal prosecutor was guilty and that rules were part of a game to be manipulated for one thing, winning. Both Trump and Clinton will support and expand these data sharing programs.
- Grishnakh 11y agoAren't you forgetting to add Rubio and Cruz to that list?