And yet this reasoning is exactly why the police keeps reiterating that they need more and more power, both surveillance, and the power to interfere without a c

And yet this reasoning is exactly why the police keeps reiterating that they need more and more power, both surveillance, and the power to interfere without a criminal cause. Ironically this is actually true. The question is to what level you want crime to fall, and if the answer is zero, then you best let the police shoot every last person without requiring them to have committed a crime.