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Underscoring the incredible incompetence of government in assessing the reality of claims and charges made. This was an indirect form of "SWATting", but the ide

Underscoring the incredible incompetence of government in assessing the reality of claims and charges made. This was an indirect form of "SWATting", but the idea is the same: government uses force as a result of mere accusation, being too lazy and stupid to assess the facts.

anigbrowl 3y ago
There's a fallacy of composition here. Government isn't a monolith but rather a set of overlapping institutions. Inefficient (and perhaps poorly resourced/educated) local forces arrested this woman multiple times and kept her in jail for about 4 days; a slower but better resourced part of government (federal investigators) figured out what was going on and jailed the perpetrator for 4 years. https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/maryland-man-sentenced-four-years-federal-prison-ruthless-cyberstalking-campaign-against https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/maryland-man-sentenced-fo... I think it's much more useful to view governments as emergent entities in social fields. Where government is absent/not involved, private groups organize to fill the vacuum and then often seek certification as public entities, which is why there are ~17000 different police forces in the US.
s1artibartfast 3y ago
Where is the incompetence? Some systems can be manipulated by bad actors, but that doesn't mean there is a better option. One can hope that they are self correcting in the long run to minimize error. Im honestly suprised how much work law enforcement put in to nail this guy. They surveiled his home over 3 months to get a warrant for his electronics. The obtained IP reccord from most of the victims accounts and tracked the perps website access. They brought people in for questioning, ect. Also, the DA's in charge of the victims cases dropped the charges for lack of evidence, before the investigation took place when Kazzelbach refused to let his phone be scanned.

anigbrowl 3y ago

There's a fallacy of composition here. Government isn't a monolith but rather a set of overlapping institutions. Inefficient (and perhaps poorly resourced/educated) local forces arrested this woman multiple times and kept her in jail for about 4 days; a slower but better resourced part of government (federal investigators) figured out what was going on and jailed the perpetrator for 4 years. https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/maryland-man-sentenced-four-years-federal-prison-ruthless-cyberstalking-campaign-against https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/maryland-man-sentenced-fo... I think it's much more useful to view governments as emergent entities in social fields. Where government is absent/not involved, private groups organize to fill the vacuum and then often seek certification as public entities, which is why there are ~17000 different police forces in the US.

s1artibartfast 3y ago

Where is the incompetence? Some systems can be manipulated by bad actors, but that doesn't mean there is a better option. One can hope that they are self correcting in the long run to minimize error. Im honestly suprised how much work law enforcement put in to nail this guy. They surveiled his home over 3 months to get a warrant for his electronics. The obtained IP reccord from most of the victims accounts and tracked the perps website access. They brought people in for questioning, ect. Also, the DA's in charge of the victims cases dropped the charges for lack of evidence, before the investigation took place when Kazzelbach refused to let his phone be scanned.