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What are you talking about? Small cities are just as rife with corruption. The nationwide "cash for kids" scandal occurred in a small city in Philadelphia. Pasc

What are you talking about? Small cities are just as rife with corruption. The nationwide "cash for kids" scandal occurred in a small city in Philadelphia. Pasco County, whose largest city is less than 20,000 in populace, literally collected lists of children's names and families for extra surveillance under the assumption they would be future criminals regardless of actual criminal history. Sundown Towns, a notion where hate crimes are effectively legal after dark, were enforced by local law enforcement (i.e. the law enforcement were lynching black people). There's no reason not to believe that law enforcement everywhere can and does turn dangerous to the local population without stringent education, repercussions for bad behavior, and transparency.

pclmulqdq 4y ago
Local law enforcement branches can be very corrupt, but don't have the resources to run a surveillance/police state like this.
- amrocha 4y ago
  Police state doesn't mean surveillance
- iudqnolq 4y ago
  In a small community where everyone knows everyone you don't need equipment to run a surveillance state. What about medium communities? Tech is very scalable, federal antiterror funds are significant, and surveillance is a profit center for police forces. Many medium police forces fund the majority of their budget through fines and fees.
- PuppyTailWags 4y ago
  Again: I don't think you're accurate here. The Pasco County case kept heavy surveillance of children by trawling every school in the county and systemically categorizing every child in the county by GPA, Attendance, credit count, etc. to identify which children to put under heavy specific surveillance (e.g. showing up dozens of times at family members workplaces unprompted and with no suspicion of crime) effectively harassing entire whole families out of the county. I would 100% consider screening every child to identify future criminals and then cracking down on their families, including unprompted visits to workplaces dozens of times, to be police state stuff.
- wahnfrieden 4y ago
  Small town budgets don’t stop pigs from using surveillance tech, it’s just with more budget constraint https://www.npr.org/2021/01/27/961103187/surveillance-and-local-police-how-technology-is-evolving-faster-than-regulation https://www.npr.org/2021/01/27/961103187/surveillance-and-lo... Etc

pclmulqdq 4y ago

Local law enforcement branches can be very corrupt, but don't have the resources to run a surveillance/police state like this.

amrocha 4y ago
Police state doesn't mean surveillance
iudqnolq 4y ago
In a small community where everyone knows everyone you don't need equipment to run a surveillance state. What about medium communities? Tech is very scalable, federal antiterror funds are significant, and surveillance is a profit center for police forces. Many medium police forces fund the majority of their budget through fines and fees.
PuppyTailWags 4y ago
Again: I don't think you're accurate here. The Pasco County case kept heavy surveillance of children by trawling every school in the county and systemically categorizing every child in the county by GPA, Attendance, credit count, etc. to identify which children to put under heavy specific surveillance (e.g. showing up dozens of times at family members workplaces unprompted and with no suspicion of crime) effectively harassing entire whole families out of the county. I would 100% consider screening every child to identify future criminals and then cracking down on their families, including unprompted visits to workplaces dozens of times, to be police state stuff.
wahnfrieden 4y ago
Small town budgets don’t stop pigs from using surveillance tech, it’s just with more budget constraint https://www.npr.org/2021/01/27/961103187/surveillance-and-local-police-how-technology-is-evolving-faster-than-regulation https://www.npr.org/2021/01/27/961103187/surveillance-and-lo... Etc