<story><title>Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavior in a ‘Risk’ Database</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzdp5v/police-in-canada-are-tracking-peoples-negative-behavior-in-a-risk-database</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattlondon</author><text>What I find weird about all of this is that people actually answer their door to unexpected &amp;amp; unknown visitors?! Do you also answer your phone to unexpected &amp;amp; unknown callers?!&lt;p&gt;My rule of thumb built up over years of annoyance &amp;amp; bullshit is: if you don&amp;#x27;t know who it is, or aren&amp;#x27;t expecting anything, ignore it; 99.9% of the time someone unexpected&amp;#x2F;unknown on the phone or at your door are just going to be wasting your time and attention. (trying to sell you something&amp;#x2F;con you&amp;#x2F;religious recruitment&amp;#x2F;generally be weird&amp;#x2F;mad etc)</text></item><item><author>emptybits</author><text>FTA: The Ontario Provincial Police say, “We can knock on someone’s door and say, ‘We’re so worried about you, can we come in and chat?’”&lt;p&gt;Yikes. I understand the positive spin is the police care about the wellbeing of at-risk people with these visits. But wouldn&amp;#x27;t it also be true that anything and everything the police observe and believe as a result of such a visit could also be used against the resident or others in the home?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dsfyu404ed</author><text>Random person knocking on my door during normal hours gets answered normally.  Knocking on doors is high effort enough to filter out most of the spam and my door gets knocked on like twice a year so it&amp;#x27;s really not a huge loss if I get spammed.&lt;p&gt;Random person knocking at the door at 1am results in me answering the door with one of the USSR&amp;#x27;s most prolific exports within arms reach in case anybody needs the ol&amp;#x27; East Houston treatment.  They might be having an emergency and need help but it&amp;#x27;s also wise to be conscious of who&amp;#x27;s knocking.  If there&amp;#x27;s three dudes on my porch and a fourth sitting in a running car then I&amp;#x27;ll ask them what they heck they want without opening the door.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t answer the door for anyone in a uniform unless I&amp;#x27;m expecting them.  If the government needs to tell me something or interact with me in any legitimate capacity they&amp;#x27;ll send a letter.</text></comment>
<story><title>Police in Canada Are Tracking People’s ‘Negative’ Behavior in a ‘Risk’ Database</title><url>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzdp5v/police-in-canada-are-tracking-peoples-negative-behavior-in-a-risk-database</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattlondon</author><text>What I find weird about all of this is that people actually answer their door to unexpected &amp;amp; unknown visitors?! Do you also answer your phone to unexpected &amp;amp; unknown callers?!&lt;p&gt;My rule of thumb built up over years of annoyance &amp;amp; bullshit is: if you don&amp;#x27;t know who it is, or aren&amp;#x27;t expecting anything, ignore it; 99.9% of the time someone unexpected&amp;#x2F;unknown on the phone or at your door are just going to be wasting your time and attention. (trying to sell you something&amp;#x2F;con you&amp;#x2F;religious recruitment&amp;#x2F;generally be weird&amp;#x2F;mad etc)</text></item><item><author>emptybits</author><text>FTA: The Ontario Provincial Police say, “We can knock on someone’s door and say, ‘We’re so worried about you, can we come in and chat?’”&lt;p&gt;Yikes. I understand the positive spin is the police care about the wellbeing of at-risk people with these visits. But wouldn&amp;#x27;t it also be true that anything and everything the police observe and believe as a result of such a visit could also be used against the resident or others in the home?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tonyedgecombe</author><text>I once had someone knock on the door who was having a heart attack. At first sight he looked like he was drunk. I&amp;#x27;m glad I didn&amp;#x27;t ignore him and was able to help.</text></comment>