Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
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Oh no, someone might be admonished with a stern talking-to.
Fine, then kick their ass for signing agreements that will LEAD to deprivation of civil rights by those in authority. If there was no way to test the device without violating the Constitution, they obviously had no business signing.
(Obviously there was, they could have just used it on each other for test purposes, but the point is valid. “Dog ate my homework” isn’t a valid excuse.)
Cops: The other criminals.
Presto! Innocence proven.
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
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Police violating the law and willfully hiding the tracker. Does anyone yet believe that the police are resembling the gestapo in its early stages. We have to fire those responsible and start to reorganize all the police in America back to serve and protect.
Only the ACLU would burst into court to protect a guilty rapist. Unbelievable!
“Specifically, the Tallahassee Police Department’s use of the stingray came to light following a 2008 sexual assault in which the victim had her cellphone stolen. Police used the stingray to track the location of the suspect, eventually entering his home without a warrant.”
I don’t get it. Wrong or not, it wasn’t his cell. Anyone think she’d refuse to give permission to track HER cell to her attacker?
Still, the secrecy surrounding this device is an issue. Again, cops trying to ignore restrictions.
1. This is Tallahassee PD - NOT the Highway Patrol, NOT Corrections, NOT even county cops - this is Barney Fife, local municipal cops with DHS-grade technology.
2. The article states that "the Tallahassee Police Department alone had used the device more than 200 times without court permission since 2010."
That department ALONE - which means others have used it as well. Who ELSE deployed it without court permission?
3. According to the ACLU's website (yes, I went there, so you wouldn't need to), the Florida-based Harris Corporation is the manufacturer. A technology site HERE states the following:
Details about the devices are not disclosed on the Harris website, and marketing materials come with a warning that anyone distributing them outside law enforcement agencies or telecom firms could be committing a crime punishable by up to five years in jail. These little-known cousins of the Stingray cannot only track movements—they can also perform denial-of-service attacks on phones and intercept conversations. Since 2004, Harris has earned more than $40 million from spy technology contracts with city, state, and federal authorities in the US, according to procurement records.
Technology providers are in bed with Odinga and the Left: Google, Apple, Yahoo, and this bunch as well.
The cops probably feared for their safety. We should be glad they got to go home safe at the end of their shifts...that’s all that matters.
It’s also a good thing dogs don’t usually carry cell phones.
This large old model is almost SEVEN years old --they're smaller now with better UI's.
The long-run aim is to make them almost the size of cell-phones.
I get it...
An Non-Disclosure Agreement with some manufacturer is now more important than 4th amendment Constitutional protections?
Somehow, I think that the Supremacy clause has just disappeared.
-PJ