[deepsun]

In general I agree, but thinking of counter-arguments -- criminals are not playing by the same rules and use every manpower-reducing technologies. So if police to keep to their traditional methods, then criminals will have upper hand, and more so with technological advances.

[jordanb]

If "criminals" are now are the mass population then we need to think about how we're defining "criminal."

Police were always allowed to bug a vehicle with a court order. They weren't allowed to just casually bug random people's cars because that's mass-surveillance. Now mass-surveillance is completely normalized. Every citizen is treated as a potential criminal and surveilled into a database.

[wat10000]

You could say the same thing about all those pesky rules police have to follow around probable cause, evidence collection, letting people have lawyers, etc. Criminals don’t have to do any of that.

[actionfromafar]

Average Republican, fine with that.

[GrowingSideways]

I'm about 1000x more concerned with gangs of armed thugs kidnapping & murdering my neighbors than I am about criminals.

[hackable_sand]

I can fight back against criminals. I cannot fight back against cops. I'd rather be surrounded by criminals.

[deepsun]

You probably meant the other way around, no? You can legally fight back against cops, but criminals be criminals, you cannot "fight back" against someone stealing your car forever.