Tilly
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- Nov 18, 2015
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Thanks, Flac. Well we don't do any of the things associated with 'shaking down' then.Shake-downs would be monitoring Mosques. Or large scale implants of deep undercover agents. Or too many street stops.
Electronic surveillance of CLEARLY identified threats would tell you far more. Build maps of their contacts, their foreign connections, their travel. Attempts to buy bomb making materials or weapons. Financial transactions.
Too much overt police presence in those areas sends folks underground. It needs to be focused on LISTED threats and done COVERTLY.
And both the USA and the UK have 3 or 4 THOUSAND -- listed threats. MOST of the terrorist actions have COME from "dropped cases" on these lists. DON'T DROP THEM. Back off the police following them around. Make it an Intelligence responsibility.
We couldn't even if we wanted to, not enough resources for a start. We can't even keep tabs on the extremists we know about. There are far too many.
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