Why should everyone have to suffer so that state's job in catching criminals is made dead easy ? Such criminals are a microscopic minority of the population. G

Why should everyone have to suffer so that state's job in catching criminals is made dead easy ? Such criminals are a microscopic minority of the population. Governments - esp in the west - have disinvested in traditional investigation and moved to using mass surveillance as their default operating strategy. And citizens are being made to pay the price.