Comment by spacechild1
4 months ago
> The plan for April is to remove the need for police to obtain a warrant to search peoples homes - that bad.
This seems to be limited to stolen geo-tagged items: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/25/police-new-p...
I would agree that this law is a slippery slope, but at the same time we should not omit important facts.
Its not a slippery slope, its carte blanche for a police force with a reputation for e.g. beating elderly people to death because they looked at them wrong (most famous being Ian Tomlison, but its fairly regular) to not have to hold back just simply because they run into a locked door.
And that is before you get into the court system, which if you need a quick primer, just look at the treatment of Julian Assange - and thats a "best case" for someone with millions of global supporters.
Uk police have targets to hit, they can't hit those targets going after real criminals, so they predominantly target people nieve enough to think they want to help them.
Of course they had to make running public forums a crime.
I'm sorry, are you accusing the UK police of killing more innocent old people than the US police? Because if so that's a funny joke.
I'm here wondering in which part of that statement there's a comparison to the US police.
I'm more depressed that he considers 47 to be old