Labour under Keir Starmer
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Labour’s proposed solution, however, was even more baffling. It proposed creating a “next-generation neighbourhood watch” by placing police hubs around the country and tapping technology like video doorbells and Whatsapp groups to help surveil communities.
Let’s be very clear about what this would mean: Amazon Ring cameras and apps like Neighbors, its neighborhood watch app, would become even more central to policing. It’s an incredibly dystopian proposal.
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1.1. In my garden
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