It's true that you can't put half of your population in prison but you can bring prison to the population just look at North Korea and a few other authoritarian

It's true that you can't put half of your population in prison but you can bring prison to the population just look at North Korea and a few other authoritarian nations around the world. We need a way to let law enforcement do their job but also balance that with citizens rights. Backdooring encryption is not the answer, but perhaps there can be some other answer. The alternative is mass surveilance like we have today. Something along the lines of a wiretap (this would technically be a state-sponsored MITM attack) for electronic communication which would only be possible with a warrant, but then we would probably end up with a secret court (a la FISA) issuing these warrants. The only point I would like to make is that we need to be open to discussing possible solutions otherwise we might not like what the whistleblowers tell us.