This course is to learn "public safety policy," which is to study how to protect indivuduals and society from anti-social behaviors such as crimes.
Safety is indispensable for free democratic society, but it does not exist a priori in our society. Please understand that safety is barely maintained by many people's efforts.
It is too simple to discuss the policy based on whether it is good or bad, or whether it properly restrains the government. In addition to feasibility of the policy, you need to think about the balance between cost and benefit of the policy and the balance between policy effect and freedom constraint.
We will explore law and policy for safer society in this course.