Funny thing is, the last few times some guy attacked people, a few days later we could read or hear in the news updates that that person had already been known to be violent, and quite a few times we also learned that they were supposed to have been deported.
Information does not seem to be the bottleneck at all! (Too) Many times, when we read about the person responsible for some sudden attack, everything needed to prevent that attack had already been known well before the attack. It's just that the authorities didn't do anything.
Sure, one may say there are too many people fitting the criteria and we cannot do anything with so many potential suspects, most of whom have not actually done anything. But more information won't help in these many cases at all.
Examples (German) - all reputable sources, mostly local public broadcasting (ARD) and one law publisher:
Don't fall for the meme that this is to protect "the people". There's a literally 1984 Quote about it:
> "The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power"
Information does not seem to be the bottleneck at all! (Too) Many times, when we read about the person responsible for some sudden attack, everything needed to prevent that attack had already been known well before the attack. It's just that the authorities didn't do anything.
Sure, one may say there are too many people fitting the criteria and we cannot do anything with so many potential suspects, most of whom have not actually done anything. But more information won't help in these many cases at all.
Examples (German) - all reputable sources, mostly local public broadcasting (ARD) and one law publisher:
https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/festnahme-solingen-syrer-10...
https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/faq-syrisch...
https://rsw.beck.de/aktuell/daily/meldung/detail/messerangri...
https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/braunschweig_ha...
https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/mecklenburg-vorpommern/Tatver... (2nd to last paragraph, he had attacked people the month before already)