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Esta especie de estado de excepción permite a los policías registrar y detener a cualquier persona sin ninguna sospecha concreta. Los agentes efectúan, de hecho, numerosos controles callejeros, pidiendo la documentación aleatoriamente a los ciudadanos que van encontrando en su camino con el objetivo de "controlar a grupos de personas relevantes", según el portavoz de la policía, Mirko Streiber.
All this is about to get much worse. On Wednesday the Antisocial Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill reaches its report stage (close to the end of the process) in the House of Lords. It is remarkable how little fuss has been made about it, and how little we know of what is about to hit us.The bill would permit injunctions against anyone of 10 or older who "has engaged or threatens to engage in conduct capable of causing nuisance or annoyance to any person". It would replace asbos with ipnas (injunctions to prevent nuisance and annoyance), which would not only forbid certain forms of behaviour, but also force the recipient to discharge positive obligations. In other words, they can impose a kind of community service order on people who have committed no crime, which could, the law proposes, remain in force for the rest of their lives.