Tacoma Police Using StingRay to gather cell phone data - without warrants

The Tacoma News Tribune ^ | August 26, 2014 | Kate Martin

[Uncle Miltie]

The cops here in Tacoma are the usual: Untrustworthy.

[Vendome]

“The department cited a nondisclosure agreement it has with the FBI”

Your NDA can actually be pierced if the act it covers is unlawful...

[Husker24]

Isn’t this the same police department that forced a guy to have 3 anal probings to search for non existent drugs, because he rolled through a stop sign and “appeared” to be clenching his ass cheeks?

[BADROTOFINGER]

No, that was in New Mexico.

[Ken H]

“I’ve got to find out what I voted on before I comment,” Councilman David Boe said Monday.

Now where have we heard that before?

[Uncle Miltie]

“I don’t know why they were talking,” she said. “Then all of a sudden, (the officer) yelled something and she tried Tasing him, but missed. When the guy started to run away, (the officer) immediately threw the Taser down, pulled her gun out and shot.”The man seemed to be running in slow motion — possibly drunkenly — as he attempted to flee, Graham said. That’s when the officer fired four shots, several of which appeared to hit the man, she added.“I didn’t see anything in his hands,” Graham added. “I didn’t see him do anything physical or threatening. I’ve just never seen anything like that before in my life — a person just getting shot like that. It was just heartbreaking.” -

See more at: http://thedailyworld.com/sections/newswire/northwest/panhandler-shot-injured-after-charging-tacoma-police-officer.html#sthash.ylGGY3wR.dpuf

[Uncle Miltie]

Posted by averagecitizen at 9:13 a.m. Jun. 30, 2013
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Folks we watched this while waiting in the turn lane. From what I viewed the slow moving but irritated homeless man was absolutely murdered. I could have restrained him with one arm. To be watching something that seemed sorta funny be turned into a shooting......I am not comfortable as a tax paying and law abiding citizen in Tacoma anymore. maybe time to relocate our business as this type of event is now all to common in Tacoma.

http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/man-wounded-after-being-shot-police/nYZQr/

[lostboy61]

Which one of the Tacoma police brought his monkey to work to operate sting ray? They are so stupid I have no ideal how they find there way to work. Barrel ass Donut munching fairy's with the Tacoma aroma.

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[gaijin]

This is actually happening ALL OVER THE USA, Tacoma is only different in that there it has come to light.

The ACLU fiends got the Feds to fess up to all manner of post Snowden stuff and the ONE thing they wouldn’t talk about was THIS.

Happening allll over.

[Hugin]

Keep building that turnkey police state.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

BOE DOESN’T KNOW!

[Kickass Conservative]

I drive a new Stingray. I had no idea it could do that.

I’d better go check the Owners Manual.

[Alas Babylon!]

A stingray is a false cell phone tower that can force phones in a geographical area to connect to it. Once these devices connect, the stingray can be used to either hone in on the target’s location or, with some models, actually eavesdrop on conversations, text messages, and web browser activity. It’s not clear how much the police cooperate with the cell phone carriers on this — in at least some cases, the police have gone to carriers with requests for information, while in others they seem to have taken a brute-force approach, dumping the data of every single user on a given tower and then sorting it to find the parties they’re interested in tracking. Stingrays can be used to force the phone to give up its user details, making it fairly easy for the police to match devices and account holders.

From the article here.

[Kickass Conservative]

I just went out to the Garage to take a look.

There is no Cell Tower attached to the Corvette, so I guess they didn’t include that Option when they built the Car.

[Malsua]

I still haven’t figure out why there isn’t an app that will allow you to selectively choose which cell towers to connect with. Once it has learned the ones in your regular areas, any new Stingray “intruder” would be ignored. It wouldn’t be very practical in a busy city with a zillion nodes, but areas served by few towers wouldn’t be a problem at all to train.

[Bratch]

[Fightin Whitey]

[freedomfiter2]

That would be illegal, so when will these individuals be arrested?