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Re:China's social network surveillance databases are apparen... by peteretep on Monday March 04, 2019 @05:06AM (#19300087)
> when in fact a lot of the situations are minor and often escalated by overly aggressive police officers

Do you have a citation for this?

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Re:China's social network surveillance databases are apparen... by knolan on Monday March 04, 2019 @05:15AM (#19300132)
There appears to be a good bit of literature on the Stop and Search tactic[0] and also the examples of the harassment of law abiding photographers in the U.K.[1]

It’s race to the bottom policing that’s approaching the US model. Assume everyone is a criminal (when crime is at an all tome low), dress police officers up in tactical gear, and turn them into enforcers rather than protectors.

[0] https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/abstractdb/AbstractDBDetails.aspx?... [1]https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2010/jan/23/photographers-pro...

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Re:China's social network surveillance databases are apparen... by dazc on Monday March 04, 2019 @05:44AM (#19300249)
You can visit many town centres in the UK on a Friday evening and witness it yourself, to a degree. The Police also have a habit of speaking some other kind of language that has the effect of causing people who are already bad tempered to become even more so.

Of course no data, purely observational.

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