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The FBI has failed so long to meaningfully preemptively stop a terrorist attack that it seems like they're are just throwing everything at the wall in desperate hopes something works. So their jobs can produce something more tangible than just providing some abstract deterrent effect. Not just a mysterious ever-watching machine scaring away would-be actors, but people who can actually go into the field and gets results.

I mean they already have about ~100k paid informants, they can't really find enough poorly educated targets to keep scaling up that program. Only so many young impressionable kids can be talked into doing terrorist attacks they were hardly capable of in the first place by undercover agents disguised as authority figures.

So, hey, what if we build snitch networks in high schools like East German youth programs?




>>The FBI has failed so long to meaningfully preemptively stop a terrorist attack that it seems like they're are just throwing everything at the wall in desperate hopes something works.

How can you be so sure? What evidence have you got to support your claim? Curious to know.


The FBI isn't that big. They only have about 14,000 agents for the whole US. The NYPD has about 35,000 cops just for NYC.


paid informants != agents


FBI budget is 8.3 billion dollars in FY 2014.

NYPD has 4.8 billion and a lot more mundane duties.




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