I put up a blurb about this last month London police's secret "domestic extremist" list includes people who sketch protests
The worst part is that the police databases are such a mess that there actually is no way to scrub anything out of them even if they wanted to. A garbled, incorrect version of some court case you were peripherally involved in might pop up on a Mac II S hypercard deck 20 years later at some little village cop shop and then that’s it for your career. If you’re an axe murderer who’s served their sentence you can get a full pardon and erasure of records as per the legislation but a rumour of naughtiness is forever.
