I tried the app for a week - it had some neat features....mostly at the expense of your privacy - I ditched it
Conscience? Gotcha. Don’t call us, we’ll call you.
We can use it to locate the workplaces and dwellings of THOSE WHO WILL GIVE THE ORDERS when the real oppression begins and we are forced to respond. They should be first on the list, having “accidents” or just disappearing.
“...but the app poses an enormous risk to deputies and police officers. “
How freaking dishonest is that argument and specious to being with?
Solution? Make officers dress in plain clothes and drive unmarked cars from now on.
Maybe I’ll stop when I see their lights, maybe I won’t.
Maybe I’ll assume it’s a bandit and I will flee their intentions.
There isn’t a target on the back of cops and no one wants to see them hurt or killed but, bad people do exist in society and unless you are willing to have officers behave as secret police then there is some risk to being a law enforcement officer.
But, I am given some pause to consider that “correctional facilities” across the land employ men and women who wear a uniform but, are largely unarmed and severely outnumbered.
What of them? Waze isn’t going to help or hurt them in anyway.
It seems this same software could be used to track Google executives - to their homes, to their work, to their fundraisers, on their vacations, wherever they were.
No. The down side to this app is certainly worth mentioning.
If I were looking for a cop to ambush, I could give you 5 better ways than using the Waze app.
The cop locations are completely unreliable.
COPS: Stop looking at me - Ping
What about scanners??
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If one life can be saved, can't we just talk about banning 5 gallon buckets of water? </sarc>
While I’m supportive of law enforcement, there are plenty of other ways to provide the information that “Waze” does, namely a cell phone or a text message. If someone truely wanted to sneak up and ambush a police officer, they could use other technology to do so.
What happened to the Google exec that was taking so much credit for helping the muslim brotherhood overthrow the government of Egypt?
Google is filled with liberal dirtbags.
It’s endangering local government from ticket profits.
There are plenty of ways, technologically, in which a criminal could track and ambush a uniformed police officer. Funny enough the only one the cops are complaining about is the technology that helps citizens avoid their revenue generation efforts.
Waze is only a threat to the revenue of the feudal states and city states that like to extract tribute from the driving public.
You are assuming that the liberals at Google are on the same side of the cops vs thugs and criminals.
I would rather see more cops patrolling the streets for thugs, like in Baltimore and elsewhere where the Dem leaders are letting the inmates run the asylum, and LESS focus on setting up speed traps to increase revenue because they have underfunded Defined Benefit plans and the cities can’t afford the police force becuase they overpromised benefits.
This is a classical viscious cycle - liberalism cuases these problems.