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Re:China's social network surveillance databases are apparen... by chii on Monday March 04, 2019 @03:28AM (#19299667)
I do believe higher levels of surveillance will have higher levels of inhibition for petty crime.

But it will not inhibit white collar crime (such as corruption or fraud etc). It won't inhibit crimes of passion. And it won't inhibit premeditated crimes that require lots of planning and hardcore execution (like drug/human trafficking etc).

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Re:China's social network surveillance databases are apparen... by pishpash on Monday March 04, 2019 @04:24AM (#19299901)
Apparently the appearance of surveillance was enough. "The cardboard cutout cop":

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/08/10/the-cardboard-c...

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