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Anyone ever heard of the term "Police State"?
Tracking smaller crimes and making them harder to commit is not something that's possible. People will do things without prior knowledge to the law, most people in our country do not know the finer details of the law, whereas I believe you are not an astute or proper citizen if you do not know the laws you are forced to abide by.
Crime will happen because people now weigh the risks of getting caught beforehand, they obviously choose to do so because they rely on the lack of police presence in their homes and private sector, and this kind of activity by government officials is diminishing the space we may even be able to call private. There is hardly a place anymore with the foundation of the Patriot Act that we can even make the choice to enact on ourselves in a way the government would deem punishable.
The representative government we have only further separates us, the citizens, from our political counterparts. We need to educate ourselves and spread the word that there needs to be a reform on the powers of the government. There is no choice anymore as to who rules us, we are forced to choose from a list of candidates, and those who oppose the system we have, by not voting, negate their voting powers rather than make a vote against the current system.
Remember what we all agreed upon over 200 years ago, that laws would be made FOR the people, and BY the people. If you are unsatisfied about laws you are forced to obey, speak out, rather than cowering in your hole (which is getting even smaller by the amount of police presence lately) and allowing our government to overtake us.
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