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Why bother they just target random people anyway. I have never seen any indication that their behaviour is in any way directed.
The point is to absolve the human behind the arrest from responsibility. "The system" gets to do the decision making, then the human can't be responsible for making a mistake and arresting the wrong person.
So we are doing “just following orders” again?
More the corporate "this was an unforseeable error in the system" that absolves themselves of any responsibility.
It was, in fact, foreseen.