Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavior in a ‘Risk’ Database

Re:Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavio... by avar on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @04:00AM (#20037738)

I'm commenting on this type of interaction with the police in general.

No, police aren't all out to get you. But you'd be dumb even in Iceland not to have some basic situational awareness and consider how that interaction started out. You didn't come to them on the street, they sought you out at your home.

So if the police knock on your door open up and talk to them there. If they just want to talk you you they'll be happy to do that there. If they seem more interested in going inside your house than having a chat with you at the door perhaps they're really there for something else.

Hedging against that by doing something that costs you maybe 5 seconds ("let's just chat here") is just common sense.

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Re:Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavio... by DanBC on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @06:58AM (#20038664)

They're talking about your mental health and the intelligence they have -- they want to talk inside your home so your neighbours don't get to listen in.

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Re:Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavio... by TheSpiceIsLife on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @08:55AM (#20039550)

So send a social worker / mental healthcare professional.

The police can wait outside in case they’re needed.

Police are decidedly not mental healthcare professionals.

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Re:Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavio... by liability on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @07:31AM (#20038845)

My neighbors live 200 yards away, they won't hear anything.

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Re:Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavio... by SketchySeaBeast on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @09:31AM (#20039905)

And you do realize your case is special, right? In urban settings, it's more like a dozen.

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Re:Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavio... by mcv on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @10:29AM (#20040586)

A dozen what? Yards? In 12 yards you're 3 neighbours over from my house.

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Re:Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavio... by liability on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @10:55AM (#20040902)

Do you think the cops would still want to enter my home? I believe so. I think his hypothesis that this is motivated by their concern for my medical privacy is BS.

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Re:Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavio... by ptaipale on Wednesday May 29, 2019 @09:33AM (#20039930)

Though this is not the focus in this discussion, I expect the most likely situation where police officers would want to talk to me inside the house - instead of just standing at the door - is because they've come to tell me some family member has died in an accident, and they prefer people to sit down when they hear this.

The police gets to do that kind of rather unpleasant jobs. Not their fault.

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