I would guess that what's said in here is accurate. And living under that kind of police presence and surveillance fucking sucks. Like if every time you walked outside it was a TSA checkpoint everywhere.

What is interesting is the extent to which it isn't racialised. In the United States, the FBI fabricates "Islamic Extremism" by coercing young, vulnerable brown people; armed cops target non-whites. It is similar in England, which has ever increasing surveillance.

The article really made me liken the cops there to TSA agents here, rather than U.S. cops. Not violent, not provoking shit, just "doing their job", and everywhere.

This can only be the result of numerous policy failures in response to a pile of contradictions.