A while ago, I had a confrontation with senior police officers over what was happening to my personal information. It was either searched or seized many times in several locations. I said this was connected -- it had to be connected. The police, though, had been treating it all as isolated incidents, one by one. I finally went over photographs of a crime scene with senior officers. Here is the conversation: “Here’s just an example,” I said [pointing at a photo]. “These are now my medical records. So my medical records have been [I move my finger over the photo] – and that’s medical records, that’s an X-ray – where they have been taken out of their envelopes, out of their folders, and put down. So now what thief goes through your medical records? And here’s another one [another photo]. That’s my photo negatives and slides. Now what thief is going through my negatives and slides? What thief [pointing to another photo] is going through my diaries, taking my personal notebooks? So I’m very concerned about what’s going on.” A senior officer replies: “Reverend, that stuff. Where was that stolen? Was it stolen?” I reply: “Some of it was stolen, some of it was sifted.” We discuss details then which I shall omit here. OBSERVATION: I wish that someone had taken an integrated approach – or tried. Perhaps they still will.
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