This seems to be the next level of culture wars. They have no interest in researching why there is an increase in shoplifting occurrences.
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There’s certainly a huge correlation between people who commit crimes of survival and people the Tories don’t want to be able to vote (for which you now need photo ID).
And a huge correlation between not being a white guy and false matches with facial recognition.
Theres like a bazillion movies, books and games telling us why overarching surveillance is a bad thing.
Oh, don’t worry, it’s only bad for the common people so that doesn’t count.
There’s plenty of real life examples of why overarching surveillance is a bad thing. The Stasi, the Gestapo, the Chinese social credit system, the myriad of Western domestic spying programs revealed by whistleblowers.
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They don’t care. Look at the P&O scandal. The fine was costed in before they made the decision to break employment law. Heck, the select committee that was responsible for holding those assholes to account even said this was a test for the government to respond to and they did absolutely nothing.
They think the people who are shoplifting have passports?
The people who are shoplifting (in the main part) are desperate people who are really at rock bottom. The money being spent on this could be used in much better ways.
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