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I'm not sure what your argument is since the police enforce the law as it is, not as it should be. "Without fear or favour."

> The ISIS-linked kid that bombed Manchester Arena was known to every intelligence agency and was even physically stopped by venue security before being released due to concerns about racism in enforcement.

The bureaucratic solution to situations like the Arena bombing is to remove human judgment and replace it with 4k video analytics. The technology already exists. I don't like it either but if there is ever a way to remove decision making power from a person by means of technology or process, the bureaucracy will gleefully use it.

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> Most of these are misdemeanors.

That's a very poor read. Most of these look like breaches of previous conviction release terms. Failure to appear isn't a non-issue. It's a bail skip to dodge a conviction.

I'll agree they're not fresh murders, but if you don't enforce the terms of a release on licence, it makes it a joke, and more importantly puts the public at risk.

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> A 31-year-old man who was wanted for voyeurism for more than six months.

> A 41-year-old man who was wanted for rape in relation to an incident which took place in November in Croydon.

>> These are all pretty low-hanging fruit.

>> This is literally the "overpolicing" of petty crime critical race theory bemoans.

You listed voyeurism and RAPE. I'll take one less rapist on the streets thank you very much.

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People who give up privacy for security will get neither.
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You think we should just let sex offenders roam the streets without apprehending them? Or it's only OK if you spent a lot of money to apprehend them, rather than picking people from a camera feed?
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The minimum standard for a "sex offence" in the UK seems to include [0] "Sharing or threatening to share intimate photograph or film" and "Sending etc photograph or film of genitals". Which (1) don't do either of those things. Ew. and (2) In a practical sense they can be pretty harmless. Maybe a fine or a strongly worded letter would be appropriate in more serious cases.

So there isn't any problem, in the abstract, with some sex offenders wandering the streets.

[0] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeand...

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I don't think I said either of those things.
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