Do you think ID cards will decrease crime rates?
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Do you think ID cards will decrease crime rates?
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ID cards, with biometric information, are said to be able to cut down on fraud, and decrease the time from crime to capture, thanks to genetic information that would be stored on one.
However, is it not true that passports were meant to cut down on illlegal immigration, wasn't chip and pin technology meant to decrease fraud. Can't all systems be corrupted? Discuss
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As we do not have a written constitution, like the USA, the role of proposed ID cards could also be scarily extended. Ones brought out during WWII originally had a few uses, which were extended drastically.
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Mnkeyboy5
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I have to admit. i have always been for ID cards. As a servig London police officer, i thought it would make my life easier. If i stopped you for not wearing a seatbelt, and wanted to give you a ticket(not that i've given anyone a traffic ticket in the last 5 years, too busy), i would need to confirm your name and address so that a summons could be served to you in the post.
With an ID card, this would mean that i did not have to arrest you to be able to confirm your identity.
However, i am concerned about the possibility for fraud, but i would still be wiling to take the chance if it meant that i wouldn't have to make unecesary arrests |
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Dr Why
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ID cards are just the next step in surrendering the bit of freedom that you have not yet lost to date. Every time you buy something or go somewhere, the government will be able to track you. ID cards have been used in Germany for decades, but the government has been very responsible in protecting individual rights. I would not trust any government to abide by self imposed rules. |
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jdw
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No |
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No... if anything they'll make it worse... ID theft is easy with such things! |
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FIONA S
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no people forge credit cards easily now so i am sure they will forge id cards.
i think they would be usefull though, just little ones you could carry on a keyring would do. |
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Julia L.
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No. I think the idea of putting my genetic and medical information on an object that could easily be lost or stolen is truly scary. |
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monkeyface
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The ID card system will be just as open to fraud as any other. It is a total waste of money. Nothing is going to reduce crime rates in this country. |
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Mr. PhD
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lol - do you think taking away guns will decrease the crime rate? Do you think passing laws decreases the crime rate?
The answer to all of these questions is a resounding NO! No law has ever decrease the crime rate, taking aways guns only affect those of us who follow the law in the first place. ID cards will only result in a entire new illicit industry to make fake ID's.
Every system that can be corrupted or hacked into, will be corrupted and hacked into. The reason is simple:
1. Find me a civil servant who is technically savvy enough to design a "foolproof" system, and I will show you 100 people with the technically savvy enough to hack it.
2. Every new law encourages people to break it. |
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gokart121
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I think ID cards will be a growth industry...in Tijuana. A physical barrier is going to be necessary at this point to keep mexicans IN mexico. And, re-thinking our cross-border commerce, too. |
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bob
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I am truely against ID cards. Must state that straight away. I am not opposed to them because of infringments to my liberty, I think they are a complete waste of time and money.
We are going to have biometeric passports soon. Do you think that'll stop people coming in illegally? Since coming in hidden in a box on the back of a lorry doen't really require a passport.
Also, those commiting crimes can be detained by police and their identity verified, unless the police are to use stop and search on everyone popping to the shops, I fail to see how having biometeric information on a bit of plastic will help reduce crime.
Also, the only people that the police want to catch/prevent are the very same criminals that will easily circumvent the systems on the card.
Having looked carefully at all the reasons for and against, I have decided that it should become law to carry a recent utility bill around at all times.
Sure my passport can get me through the border chechpoints of some of the worst oligarchies and dictatorships in the world, but that's not good enough for the man who runs my local video store. And he looks like he knows a thing or two
We got window locks and burlar alarms to stop thieves, we got con men to distract us while we got our stuff nicked.
We go improved security in our cars, we got car jacking
We got chip and pin, we get more and more cloning of cards.
We get ID cards........... |
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geoff t
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It is possible to buy fake passports,driving licenses,MOTs and almost anything else you can imagine so ID cards will not solve anything. |
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izzieere
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No. Very little crime is ID related. Also unless the cards are compulsory, anyone who wants to commit a crime that is ID-related will say he hasn't got an ID card and will offer the same forged stuff he would now.
Pointless waste of money if you ask me. |
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Tom C
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ID cards will be forged, thus creating more problems. |
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Negrodeus
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No... |
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Sharon 2
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Theres only one way to find out, im sure we will all find out. |
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