What is a criminal? What is crime? In the USA, it was a crime for an enslaved Black American to learn to read and write? Attempting to escape was also a crime.

What about the crimes happening in company boardrooms rather than on the street corners?

People often call crime, individual offenses and think of certain racial groups, while ignoring real crimes committed by corporations led by other racial groups.

The crazy thing is that the greatest harms are caused by people who are not target of surveillance technology .

It will never not blow my mind that wage theft, the act of employers by one way or another fudging compensation to employees, eclipses every other form of larceny combined, and authorities do basically nothing about it.

If you work at a store and you take $100 from the register, you can be detained and jailed. Maybe prosecuted depending where you are.

If you work at a store and short five workers $20 each on their checks, and pocket it, they all have to individually pursue it as a civil matter, which itself costs money and time they probably don't have. It's fucking wild behavior.

I have to disagree though, it's not that crazy. Crime has always been a social construct much as that triggers a certain kind of person to hear, it just is. We decide the bounds of "good" behavior as a society and then determine punishments for those who transgress but at the same time, the law enforcement and justice systems are themselves systems made of people, and therefore inherit their biases. There have always been crooked cops, crooked judges, crooked prosecutors, etc. Like this isn't revolutionary shit I'm talking about, this is a standard plot point in movies going back to before movies had sound.