doing nothing hands over too much power to criminals
you either have encryption, or you don't. there is no middle ground. any measure to force access to encrypted messages would effectively disable encryption entirely.
I was going to respond to this part of GP but along the lines of communication being (mostly?) not a crime in an of itself. Committing crimes in the physical world is still illegal.
I just want to make that clear, governments don’t need complete access to your digital life to make the legal system go round.
Unfortunately the argument of strong privacy for everyone loses compared to the emotional argument of “we could have prevented this horrific crime if we had access to XYZ”, in the emotional political arenas
you either have encryption, or you don't. there is no middle ground. any measure to force access to encrypted messages would effectively disable encryption entirely.