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If all we cared about was solving crimes, we could make US law enforcement much easier by doing away with a lot of things, such as certain amendments to the US
by squozzer 9y ago
If all we cared about was solving crimes, we could make US law enforcement much easier by doing away with a lot of things, such as certain amendments to the US Constitution.
But law enforcement is only one component of a functional society.
And the rest of us, from time to time, have to deal with the criminals who have yet to be caught by our acceptably-efficient law enforcement apparatus.
This includes people who like to steal information, many of whom are probably out of US law enforcement's reach.
The author doesn't address that problem, which I can understand, as he's a lawyer and former fed prosecutor. And while it's tempting to tell him to stay in his lane, we're stuck with him and others like him.
And it doesn't seem possible for the people (whom government doesn't really trust, despite platitudes uttered for generations) and the government (whom the people do not trust, for reasons I have a hard time impeaching) to agree on a system for safeguarding information.
Which is too bad, because most people would probably like to help enforce laws, espeically those involving children and other vulnerable types.
BUT, we live in a world where even the most open and free societies do the following:
1) Use the police (more accurately, the threat of legal trouble) to silence, bankrupt, and intimidate problematic people.
2) Defeat or ignore the controls designed to prevent abuses of power.
3) Refuse to hold government institutions accountable for malfeasance.
It might help Dr. Rozenshtein's case if he would apply his gifts to solving the political problems listed above, which might restore the trust between government and governed, which in turn might get him the tools he thinks government should have for enforcing the law.