Persuasive Essay On Surveillance And Surveillance

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Using surveillance and investigation the government would be able to detect if someone has committed a crime and imprison them based on the evidence. If the person did not commit the crime they would go free and their name cleared. Yet these suspects have not been jailed before hand. In this scenario, why is it ethical for the government to surveill these people? The reason that this is considered ethical is because the government knows how to carry out surveillance and the proper people trained in information gathering are carrying it out and the information is being properly handled. Police officers, detectives or other officers of the law, those who carry out surveillance are trained in it and know how to handle the information gathered. They are the correct people to verify someone’s innocence because they know how to verify innocence or guilt. Surveillance does have a valid purpose of verification and justice, and if the alternatives are worse, nonexistent or need surveillance to supplement the evidence then it would be necessary to use surveillance and the purpose is proportional to the means of surveillance. Their cause is valid, if a crime has been committed to maintain justice and the safety of the people it is …show more content…

If you monitor gang activity you may be monitoring both people who have been imprisoned before or people who have never been imprisoned before. In this scenario, you definitely want to continue using surveillance and tracking the gang activity because sooner or later, most likely sooner, the gang is going to move and commit a crime, either as a whole or one of the members on their own. Either way with surveillance the police would be able to know this and prevent it or be able to incarcerate those who committed the crimes with evidence built up from the surveillance. Surveillance helps in capturing criminals and maintaining justice and order, it is a very important tool of the

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