The surveillance allows the government to better target the violence. Building lists of troublemakers, lists of those with guns, collecting information that can

The surveillance allows the government to better target the violence. Building lists of troublemakers, lists of those with guns, collecting information that can be used for blackmail, social credit scores, etc. The Stasi, the East German secret police, had the same guns as officials have in free countries, the difference seemed to be the effort they put into surveillance. Technology enables so much more of that.