Prevent is meant to identify people at risk of radicalisation before any crime has been committed.
But over 50% of referrals fall under 'no fixed ideology'.
And governments have added more categories into the mix, bloating the system with referrals that don't belong under a counter-terrorism lens.
#prevent #surveillance #dataprotection #precrime #policing #ukpolitics #ukpol
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