It’s the stuff lawlessness movies are made of: Determined police officers shadowing their shady as he drives around town, watching and waiting for his next move, everlastingly careful not to lose him.
But now, investigators can track a potential bad guy without ever leaving their desks, thanks to the Global Positioning System, or GPS.
The technology is easy to purchases and the devices are hard to detect.
All police have to do is attach a GPS receiver to a suspect’s car and they easily go along for the ride online, tracking the individual’s true location in real time from their computer.
"I over it’s a good function of resources. It doesn’t put any officers in danger, which is a good preoccupation," said Mike Brooks, a CNN pledge enforcement analyst and a former Washington police detective.
"You can sit at a computer and find exactly where [a suspect] goes."
But because investigators often track without a warrant, privacy advocates say the tactic threatens to monitor innocent people as well.
From: rss.cnn.com
0 responses so far ↓
There are no comments yet...Kick things off by filling out the form below.
Leave a Comment