This is just wrong on so many levels. If I had something stolen, the cops would not let me search people's homes hoping to find it.
It's either that OR a marketing ploy to give iPhone 5 some attention. Both are very wrong and it appears the cops are idiots in both scenarios.
tech ping please.
It is to puzzle.
There are “Lojack” systems for laptops, which have been used to locate where a stolen laptop has been connected to the internet. Police can get search warrants based on a report from Lojack that it got a message from a reported stolen laptop calling home.
As for the reportedly missing Apple prototype, maybe the police didn’t look very hard because after all, the guy isn’t making a stink about having his apartment tossed. May have only electronically searched for it, and if it had been placed in a metal container or its battery taken out, it would be hidden from that kind of search. But it got Apple on the news.
What happened to asking for a warrant when the “police” show up at your door?
I’ve noticed that as the United States slides into a third-world style government, the role of the police is changing. Instead of an impartial public service, it’s become a pay-to-play arrangement.
For example, these Apple thugs getting the cops to illegally search (or use the weight of their authority to allow them to search) a citizen’s home.
Bill O’Reilly gets his own personal detectives to investigate his wife’s boyfriend.
Congressmen enlist cops to intimidate citizens and confiscate cameras at town halls.
Here in Los Angeles, each fat slob on the City Council gets a cop as a personal driver.
We also have retired cops — but in full uniform and on motorcycles — “policing” location shoots. They have no authority, but you don’t know that unless you look real close at their ‘retired’ badges when they’re pushing you around. So which is it? If you’re retired, get out of that uniform and stop playing cop. If you’re a cop, you have no business taking money and orders from a film producer.
The cops are working for everyone but the public.
We’re becoming Brazil.
When libs take over, the cops are prevented from doing their REAL jobs, and then instead plunge into a whole range of activities that are NOT their jobs.
They’re going to do SOMETHING, right? It ain’t getting cats out of trees, in San Francisco.
I was robbed by the SFPD—I mean that literally, I’m still in shock it ever happened— and I’m incredibly clean-cut. I even used to work for a PD.
Did you know as a cop in SF you can get a SEX CHANGE OPERATION and the city must pay for it...? That goes ditto if you have, “a domestic partner”.
The SF General Hospital police chief made $500,000 in one year, with overtime. I’m serious. His entire beat is ONE hospital.
If an illegal alien has a long record, you still can’t deport him from SF, which is a sanctuary city. A couple years ago one of them killed 3 members from a family of 4 and they STILL couldn’t deport him (a traffic altercation made him angry).
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This is the kind of garbage that goes on in Kalifornia all the time. It all depends on who you are. Example from a friend of mine who used to live in Kalifornia (any native can feel free to back me up or provide rebuttal): there are no private beaches in Kalifornia. But there are a lot of places, especially near celebrities’ homes, where armed security guards will show up on 4-wheelers and make you leave, by force if necessary. Calling the cops yields no results. Writing letters to any myriad of legislators comes to nothing. No court will hear your case. Why? It’s the endless checkbook theory. Nobody will take a case against a bunch of celebrities that can pay lawyers all day to slow-roll the case, call in a million and one favors, you name it.
A former co-worker of mine was under investigation for mail fraud. A couple years after I left the company, their ‘corporate security’ showed up at my door. I guess this co-worker had signed my name on one of his documents. They compared the signature to a signature from my HR file and figured out it obviously wasn’t me, but I guess they had to follow thru and check it out. When he showed up and told me what was going on, it was the first I had heard of any of it.
Anyway, he was very official and somewhat intimidating, but he asked me to step outside my house so we could chat. No reason to search my house, and all-in-all he treated me fairly. I never did hear how the whole investigation went, or if this former co-worker ever got caught. But the guy that came to visit me had driven 4 hours to check me out. At the time this company was quite large, but certainly not as big as Apple. But they still took this very seriously...