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Totalitarian? Nearly omniscient? US law enforcement can't even keep bombs off airplanes, drugs out of prison, and people from getting away with murder.
by rhino369 11y ago
Totalitarian?
Nearly omniscient?
US law enforcement can't even keep bombs off airplanes, drugs out of prison, and people from getting away with murder.
- runjake 11y ago> US law enforcement can't even keep bombs off airplanes, drugs out of prison, and people from getting away with murder. They could if that were an actual priority of theirs. But I suspect it's not, and growing their power is.
- rayiner 11y ago[citation needed]
- Zigurd 11y agoWould you prefer "random and haphazardly prioritized omniscience?" Reducing corruption among prison guards and raising violent crime solution rates is hard. Buying shiny stabilized cameras and airplanes is easy and it's wicked cool. So you need to use your super-powers and arrest some people for... whatever, to show you are using your shiny toys. It's not hard to explain how a government can have seeming omniscience in some cases, and still be bumbling in many others. That also explains the warped priorities.