No, they just see that the citizens will have access to greater privacy and security than before (to protect everyone's private information from criminal hacker

No, they just see that the citizens will have access to greater privacy and security than before (to protect everyone's private information from criminal hackers, foreign states, etc.) and fear losing access to surveillance. That this will lead to a significant amount of crime is simply assumed, and not from any basis in reality. They also misuse statistics to try and make issues look larger than they are, which does a disservice when these are actually really serious issues. Like with CSAM, they always talk about so many millions of reports, without mentioning that reports are only suspected content, and the vast majority turn out not to actually be illegal (something like 70-80% of reports are discarded by law enforcement in the first pass - but it's understandable that platforms have to be extremely conservative and report anything that even looks a little like it could possibly be CSAM). Then there are massive amounts of duplication and things like that. But it is a serious issue, so it does my head in that they misuse the 'big, impressive reports number' when they know only a fraction lead to investigations, because that just gives critics a basis to show that they're massively exaggerating which could lead people to minimise the issues. Of course, at the end of the day, you can't surveil your way to safety and these problems are best solved at the source. But that would require things like fighting poverty (oh no, welfare spending!) and deploying large numbers of social workers to help support people in marginalised communities.