Simon Dixon alleges civil unrest can be leveraged to increase public support for surveillance

What was said

"the more protest, the more pre-rime arrests we can do, uh, the further it goes into civil unrest, then the people that are okay, they're going to opt into a surveillance state because they want to be safe."

Simon Dixon alleges that escalating protest and civil unrest can be used to justify “pre-crime arrests” and encourage the public to accept a surveillance state in exchange for safety, referencing “what's happening in the UK” without providing specifics in the excerpt.