The major cause of police (in the uk in particular) targetting social media and rudeness is a mix of having targets to hit, in order to justify funding, and not having the funds to do any serious, difficult policing. So they run speed cameras and go around telling people off for being rude on social media a lot more than they otherwise would.
Some of that is motivated by politics perhaps, but mostly it's just box ticking to hide how much the system is on fire.
This looks to have been a major multinational initiative, so there's significantly more funding available for the effort and a lot more organisational will to allow real police work to get done. Add in the fact that the operation boils down to the french got lucky and everyone else really just needed to sweep in and do the arresting and you've got that most rare of things.
A heartwarming police story that bends organised crime over a barrel and goes in dry.
The major cause of police (in the uk in particular) targetting social media and rudeness is a mix of having targets to hit, in order to justify funding, and not having the funds to do any serious, difficult policing. So they run speed cameras and go around telling people off for being rude on social media a lot more than they otherwise would.
Some of that is motivated by politics perhaps, but mostly it's just box ticking to hide how much the system is on fire.
This looks to have been a major multinational initiative, so there's significantly more funding available for the effort and a lot more organisational will to allow real police work to get done. Add in the fact that the operation boils down to the french got lucky and everyone else really just needed to sweep in and do the arresting and you've got that most rare of things.
A heartwarming police story that bends organised crime over a barrel and goes in dry.