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I'm sure this will stop the rioting.


I feel like this would worsen the feelings of grievance that are causing the rioting. Not that I know what's going on


I believe it's somewhat unrelated to the rioting.

If you look at France it's not all of France rioting (through all of France was protesting).

Instead its a specific group of people defined by at what kind of place they live in: Banlieues. This is a form of ghetto which is historically mostly populated by people which grand parents had a migration background and which due to an economical shift had en-mass lost their jobs (the grand or grand grand parents).

This people grew up as French where told all the social norms and expectations of French society etc. At the same time they are often not treated as French have close very little chances to get any job at all. Just having a address at the border of a Banlieues is enough for you not even be considered for a job.

Over the last decades this has gotten so bad that by often police isn't really present in the Ghettos at all, and if only in larger groups. At the same time this distress is frequently abused by extremists, e.g. religious ones.

But that also means that most people in Banlieues probably do not care too much about this law as it is unlikely to ever affect them anyway. At the same time it's also true the other way around, the police cares too little about the Banlieues to abuse it to target the huge majority of people there. Similar if they move against people there they know very well that this people do not have good ways to properly legally defend themself.

But who will be targeted by this are e.g. environmental activists. For example France has in the past already (many times) declared some environmental activists as domestic terrorists and used anti-terrorist laws to spy on them in various ways.

I probably are wrong in some points at least somewhat, but I think it might be still worth to consider some of the arguments.


idk

it's not exactly the bill we needed in the middle a crisis of confidence in the police.

it's just conservatives shrugging off what is happening, and making their point

this law doesn't make sense otherwise




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