Just as funds can be placed in escrow, ie NOT given-outright to the other party, in a transaction, until the transaction is fulfilled,

so too could data be kept in escrow, NOT all handed to authoritarian-culture operations, and vehicles identified as stolen then data-mined out from the kept-in-escrow data.

That would prevent stalking ( using Flock ) by officers, of women, for 1 thing..

iow, it could be done in a more trustworthy way, but it isn't being done in any such way.

And that is a choice.

That is always the default choice of authority, whether "revolutionaries" or incumbents, institutions or dynasties of any kind..

Corruption's greatest multiplier is conflict-of-interest.

Since that fact is already-known, all it requires of us is that we engineer our civilization to make all authority-responsibility orthogonal to all other, as much as can be done: eradicate conflict-of-interest.

Eradicate "self policing" which never demonstrated integrity in historical timescales ( there have been individuals with outright integrity, but the social-civil default is corruption.

That Roman man who became dictator to fix some problem for Rome, then quit, twice, had excellent integrity, from what i can see.. and that is spectacularly rare. )

Only when responsibility comes 1st, accountability 2nd, and authority-to-the-measure-justified-by-the-responsibility-&-accountability 3rd, only then will humankind begin outgrowing feudalism, instead of recreating it endlessly.

Monarchic-feudalism, party-feudalism, oligarchic-feudalism, corporate-feudalism, fascist/militarized-male-narcissism-feudalism, it's all aiming at the same narcissism-machiavellianism-psychopathy-is-LORD target, and it all ought be outgrown, nowadays, finally.

Accepting that checks-&-balances are requirement throughout civilization, is mature & needed.

There is no other way which can work.

Yes, there is an arms-race between criminal-operations & police-services.

Yes, it is better to have police limiting criminality than it is to have crime-cartels being the only law in one's region

( ask northern Mexico if they like the cartel-rule paradigm, for contrast, and look at the homicide-rate there, which is horrifying ).

But community-policing is best, when community & police-services are standing together against crime's mutation of our civilization .. but "we can't afford that" so instead we have militarized "police" becoming more like the ruling-gang??

The "sharks among the community" paradigm that many have written about?

And many push to remove policing, through the "defund the police" movement, with the ACAB-prejudice, and when a city actually did that, in the US, criminality skyrocketed ( Duh! ).

Partial-views won't ever produce right-answer.

We need to see complete-view, and to be honest-enough to admit that utopia isn't offered/possible, and further that earning good-result takes work & investment, from ALL sides..

i wonder if any community has the uprightness to do it?

i hope so..

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