 49! Germany has been controlling (some of) its border crossings for 2 months now, and has managed to find 49 people in that time on the border from Luxembourg https://infos.rtl.lu/actu/luxembourg/a/2249562.html That’s FEWER THAN 1 A DAY! For ridiculous cost employing police to do these controls! 🤯 Regardless of what you think of the ethics here this is an insane waste of money 19 comments
@pengovsky @Nicovel0 Sure, but how much money do you want to waste to make your crap message?  It’s public money, so who cares? @jon @pengovsky looking at airport security I’d say no one cares as long as the feels are right Whether it’s a waste of money or not can only be answered when looking at the goals they spend the money for. That money wasn’t spent on security, but into a political message. And to those who wanted it, that was highly successful. False, as doing things typically have multiple effects and it’s symptomatic to our political system to argue with one effect but to actually target a totally different one. @jon And now the Netherlands is planning on copying them. 😡 https://nos.nl/artikel/2544112-kabinet-vanaf-9-december-extra-grenscontroles-tegen-migratie @jon Border from Luxembourg? Well, if you find 49 people illegally crossing the border with millions of € to hide from taxes the measure has been quite successful 🤡  This was the criticism at "targeted checks" at airports after 9/11. Secret pre-profiling of people with the result that those with high score would always get checked, those with low score never. So if you flew 3x without being checked you knew you had a low score and would be checked much less frequent than if there were random checks. Same here: if they wanted better checks, then these should be random - and no-check routes not be traced by Google... So it's all theater!  @udittmer Thank you, these are the figures I searched for because other borders are much more important. @jon As RTL is not the best source, are there figures for all the other, much longer borders that Germany has? Luxembourg might be important to migrate money, so it shows the idioty, but the harder controls are on different borders. |
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@jon border policing theatre