The timeline shows laws and deployments together, and it is tempting to read cause into the order they appear. The data does not support that reading. The fields built to link one event to another were never filled in, and the deployment records carry no date at all. Thirty-two events are tagged with labels like “law follows capability”, but those tags point at nothing. Treat the timeline as two stories shown side by side, not as one causing the other.
- milestones.linked_milestone_id: empty in all 311 rows
- milestones.lag_days: empty in all 311 rows
- 32 of 311 milestones carry a relationship label with no target
- The deployments table has no date field of any kind
Topics: Law enforcement & government