This is only a symbolic gesture until we see actual literal results. Those results are already questionable because we know they won’t be arresting these criminals.

I’m not sure what you see this officer having done other than talk about encouraging his officers to do part of their job or risk losing it.

This isn’t actually doing anything. This is barely an announcement of public intent to in the future do something. Every time the police don’t do something will be evidence that this was full of shit. If an officer does something as a result of this order it can’t even be praised because of what it’s taken to force them to do it.

They aren’t actually going to do it though. This is all marketing and public relations nonsense. This is purely performative. If I’m wrong I will be so happy to be wrong.

In fairness a government should be the only entity surveilling people in its own borders under most any circumstances.

I’m pretty opposed to most any kind of surveillance outside of warranted due process, and I don’t think that any domestic surveillance needs privacy for longer than it takes to do an investigation and prosecution.

It’s when governments are allowed to do things in secret and outside of the law that the whole concept of the law is undermined.