<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>PuppyTailWags</author><text>What are you talking about? Small cities are just as rife with corruption. The nationwide &amp;quot;cash for kids&amp;quot; scandal occurred in a small city in Philadelphia. Pasco County, whose largest city is less than 20,000 in populace, literally collected lists of children&amp;#x27;s names and families for extra surveillance under the assumption they would be future criminals regardless of actual criminal history. Sundown Towns, a notion where hate crimes are effectively legal after dark, were enforced by local law enforcement (i.e. the law enforcement were lynching black people).&lt;p&gt;There&amp;#x27;s no reason not to believe that law enforcement everywhere can and does turn dangerous to the local population without stringent education, repercussions for bad behavior, and transparency.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pclmulqdq</author><text>NYC, SF, and other big cities behave this way, but most of the rest of the country doesn&amp;#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>fakedang</author><text>Looks like USA is a police state after all. The irony.</text></item><item><author>crop_rotation</author><text>This reminds me of San Francisco Police Strike 1975 where the Police ignored court orders and called the court order &amp;quot;Unconstitutional&amp;quot;. (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;1975&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;20&amp;#x2F;archives&amp;#x2F;police-out-san-francisco-faces-fire-and-transit-strikes-new-tieups.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;1975&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;20&amp;#x2F;archives&amp;#x2F;police-out-san-f...&lt;/a&gt;)
In the end they got what they wanted too.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NYPD is refusing to comply with NYC’s new surveillance tech laws</title><url>https://www.dailydot.com/debug/nypd-violating-post-act-inspector-general/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>paxys</author><text>Small town police departments are worse. They just don&amp;#x27;t get all the press.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pclmulqdq</author><text>NYC, SF, and other big cities behave this way, but most of the rest of the country doesn&amp;#x27;t.</text></item><item><author>fakedang</author><text>Looks like USA is a police state after all. The irony.</text></item><item><author>crop_rotation</author><text>This reminds me of San Francisco Police Strike 1975 where the Police ignored court orders and called the court order &amp;quot;Unconstitutional&amp;quot;. (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;1975&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;20&amp;#x2F;archives&amp;#x2F;police-out-san-francisco-faces-fire-and-transit-strikes-new-tieups.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;1975&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;20&amp;#x2F;archives&amp;#x2F;police-out-san-f...&lt;/a&gt;)
In the end they got what they wanted too.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>NYPD is refusing to comply with NYC’s new surveillance tech laws</title><url>https://www.dailydot.com/debug/nypd-violating-post-act-inspector-general/</url></story>