| ▲ | BeetleB 5 days ago | |
> Apparently, this strategy wasn't invented in Australia It's an old strategy. It's commonly been part of plots of various stories/movies in the US going back decades. | ||
| ▲ | skissane 5 days ago | parent [-] | |
> It's an old strategy. It's commonly been part of plots of various stories/movies in the US going back decades. I think significant aspects of it are quite novel – e.g. teenagers being recruited via Signal or Telegram, often by overseas fugitive gang leaders; some cases have even (allegedly) involved Iranian government agents Also, there's a difference between something repeatedly happening in fiction over decades, and law enforcement seeing multiple real life cases of it over a few months in a single metro area | ||