... and of course making the problem systematically worse.<p>They explicitly state that they&#x27;re after people who were filmed - just filmed - at the London riots a few years ago. They&#x27;re looking to arrest them, and to extract damages from them.<p>At those riots, absolute worst case 10-20% of people will have stolen or smashed things, with most just rallying for justice. But that doesn&#x27;t even matter. The vast majority of those people aren&#x27;t criminals, and even of the ones that did commit criminal acts during those riots 99% aren&#x27;t &quot;regular criminals&quot; (meaning any more disrespectful of laws than a bad landlord is, day-to-day).<p>But arresting these people will seriously impact their situation, their job, their prospects, and bring them a LOT closer to becoming criminals. And even the ones where it doesn&#x27;t make them criminals, it will make them much more likely to riot again, for obvious reasons.<p>This is stupid, dangerous, and merely meant to make a few people in power feel good about themselves.