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by waltpad 2194 days ago
> How much good grace would be earned if the military surveillance was used to prosecute police brutality and misuse of authority in addition to arson and looting?

Nothing in the article says that they don't monitor police activity. I wonder what would be the police reaction if this were happening and made public.
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taborj 2194 days ago
> I wonder what would be the police reaction if this were happening and made public.

Probably not much. A vast, vast majority of cops are just normal people doing a difficult and dangerous job. A vanishingly small number are power hungry psychopaths.

We really only see the bad stuff in the news, while the insane amount of great things they do go generally unnoticed, with a few exceptions every now and again.

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waltpad 2194 days ago
> Probably not much.

I hope so: this article assumes that for normal citizens, monitoring seems to be a problem, so it's only natural to expect the police forces to get upset for the same reasons. That being said, it's possible that they're already used to be monitored constantly.

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