Pasco: “Make their lives miserable until they move or sue.”
Stasi: "The security service's goal was to use Zersetzung to 'switch off' regime opponents. After months and even years of Zersetzung a victim's domestic problems grew so large, so debilitating, and so psychologically burdensome that they would lose the will to struggle against the East German state." [1]
These floridian police are basically grooming kids to become criminals by giving them records and harassing their families until they fall unto hardship.
What if that was the point? The system is making work to justify its continued existence. The police aren't working for you, they are working for the sheriff, and these interest do not match.
Nobody likes to hear it, but I'm willing to bet this person has been in office for a while. Tough on crime is popular among "model citizen" voters even if it utilizes dystopic tactics.
what if the point was never public health but increasing overall corruption?
they knew prohibitions increase corruption after the alcohol prohibition... so why not?
[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/nixon-adviser-ehrlichman-ant...
So rather than asking “why does the government do this”, ask “how does this help the police”, since that’s the part of the government doing that.
This is a conscience effort.
Plausible deniability.
"It wasn't us(the federal government), it was them(the local government)."
In the end, still protecting the power structure, just more effectively. So many protectors that accountability becomes next to impossible.
Ladies and gentleman, what we have here is:
Decentralized power structure protection!
Legislation is the consensus algorithm,
Attorneys & Judges are the miners.
Edit: Criminals are the energy/electricity,
And the police are the power company that harness and distribute that energy.
This is why, for instance, the FBI does it so much.
https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-is-manufacturing-terrori...
This. How can you expect these kids to grow up and be productive members of society [0] when you make it all but impossible to get a decent job later!?
[0] Which I'm sure they would claim is a goal.
It's probably a very effective way to weaponise "three strikes" too.
It was not, most of the time they were harassing outliers, not people who wanted to make a regime change. Some examples: Religious people, people who listened to western music, men who had long hair (you were assumed to be a fan of the western hippie culture), people with noble ancestry if they did not show support for the communist party,..