LONDON — Orlando shooter Omar Mateen was on a terror watch list. So was Larossi Abballa, who stabbed a police officer and his wife on Monday in a suburb of Paris.
Despite being known to authorities, both men succeeded in planning and committing their horrific crimes. Why did authorities not stop them?
Numbers provided by U.S., French and British authorities suggest that it is impossible to monitor all suspects on terror watch lists 24/7 — a situation that is unlikely to change.
In 2014 — when the Islamic State spread nearly unhindered, it seemed, in Syria and Iraq — Britain said its security services only had the capacity to physically monitor 50 suspects. In other words: Less than 2 percent of all suspects on Britain’s terror watch list were actually monitored.
Assuming that agencies need at least 20 staffers to observe an individual day and night, one would continuously need more than 60,000 officers to monitor all 3,000 suspects.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...or-all-terror-suspects-these-charts-show-why/
Despite being known to authorities, both men succeeded in planning and committing their horrific crimes. Why did authorities not stop them?
Numbers provided by U.S., French and British authorities suggest that it is impossible to monitor all suspects on terror watch lists 24/7 — a situation that is unlikely to change.
In 2014 — when the Islamic State spread nearly unhindered, it seemed, in Syria and Iraq — Britain said its security services only had the capacity to physically monitor 50 suspects. In other words: Less than 2 percent of all suspects on Britain’s terror watch list were actually monitored.
Assuming that agencies need at least 20 staffers to observe an individual day and night, one would continuously need more than 60,000 officers to monitor all 3,000 suspects.
mo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...or-all-terror-suspects-these-charts-show-why/
