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Re:Google says geofence warrants make up one-quarter of all ... by lamontcg on Sunday August 22, 2021 @04:15PM (#28269160)
It is still a highly human resource intensive process to investigate and punish crimes using that surveillance. It doesn't get used to identify who broke into your car and stole stuff out of it, because they just don't really care about that. They do care about everyone who was at the demonstrations, which affects the police directly and which threatens the role that the police have in protecting private capital. If you understand what their role and focus is then the lack of enforcement on petty crimes isn't a counterexample at all.
Re:Google says geofence warrants make up one-quarter of all ... by mullingitover on Sunday August 22, 2021 @06:33PM (#28270355)
> They do care about everyone who was at the demonstrations, which affects the police directly and which threatens the role that the police have in protecting private capital.

Who are the regular people asserting their first amendment rights who are being hunted down? I haven't seen that. I have seen a bunch of insurrectionists having these tools used on them, and that's frankly a laudable use of these surveillance tools.

If you're using a peaceful protest as a cover for looting, honestly I enthusiastically encourage that 'they' hunt you down, because you're just a vanilla criminal at that point. That's an ideal outcome for the justice system.