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Originally Posted by Gayle
But you haven't answered my question at all. What is it about some people that makes the police want to detain them? Are innocent people being victimised randomly? You are making it sound like the police randomly swoop on innocent people and detain them without any reason i.e. just plucking them off the street. What I want to know is why these people are plucked off the street in the first place - what makes the police think they are terrorists.
Do you have any case studies?
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I don't. However I suspect its the same as any other crime. Wrong place wrong time. However normally people are just released quickly, under this legislation they can be detained for 42 days just in case some evidence appears. If they were guility and the police heavily suspected them of it, thats different because they would release them on the last day and then use survailence, but they simply have not done this in the innocent cases under the terrorism act.