In the modern surveillance state, if you want to do anything you have to be willing to kill yourself. You don't see it most of the time because it's just not used to help unimportant people. If a random untermensch breaks into your house, there's no evidence, they don't know where he went, if he does get caught he gets a plea deal, on and on. If an otherwise upstanding citizen attacks an elite, heaven and earth will move to put that rebel in the ground. Suddenly there's cameras everywhere, there's satellite tracking, cell phone triangulation, license plate readers, AI summarized search keyword analysis, facial recognition. The whole system comes down on him.

All they have to do for total control is make sure no more than 1% of the population wants to kill themselves at any one time.