Randomized attacks double as surveillance instruments on crowds

Evidence

The point is to promote panic among a population or crowd of people, at once observing – gaining insight into – the reactions of members of the multitude. Random attacks in and on depersonalized public places, invasions, unannounced searches, bombs apparently missing targets, purposeful collateral damage, deliberate targeted assassination of moderates. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 673

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Automated personalization exploits economic insecurity to extract surveillance forfeitures — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 802