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The police have never investigated all crime. The various tax offices investigate tax fraud; local authority environmental health investigate a variety of pira
by DanBC 7y ago
The police have never investigated all crime. The various tax offices investigate tax fraud; local authority environmental health investigate a variety of piracy and weights and measures crimes; local councils investigate illegal landlords. There are loads of examples of crimes that are not, and never have been, investigated by English police forces.
> abusive use of the earlier RIPA legislation by councils became notorious,
But this is RIPA working as intended. Pre-RIPA those councils were engaging in this kind of surveillance unchecked. After RIPA they have to justify the surveillance, and we the public now have a way to stop them if they're going too far.
RIPA was never intended as "anti terror" law, it was designed to reduce surveillance and bring the rest under a regulatory framework.
- jen20 7y agoThe idea that any legislation brought forward since the Blair era was intended to _reduce_ surveillance and authoritarianism is quite simply laughable, though it turns out that May (as Home Secretary) and not Blair (though his government was the worst offender at normalisation of this.