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With all this information collected and available, and with pretty basic technology tools (keyword alerts, fast searching, location data to pinpoint pretty accurate positioning) - how come there is still crime and other "bad things" that happen?

I'm not talking about heat-of-the-moment things, but literally anything requiring any sort of planning or organisation (kidnapping, gangsterism, etc) should be solvable with this. So why isn't it?

*Note, I don't want an uber-surveillance state - my point is that we already have one, and any feeble excuses from law enforcement about solving 10s of thousands of crimes with "ooops we can't figure it out" seems utterly hollow and untrue.




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