Police Infuriated About New “Cop Detecting” Device That Warns People When a Cop is Near
Posted by Phlembol 10 years, 10 months ago to Technology
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As to DC, can't argue with much of that, but no Congress and President will ever be able to 'roll things back'.
I find your comment a bit condescending. One does not need to be in law enforcement to understand their work or how they perform it. A citizen has a right to an opinion regarding how every public servant operates and making their job easier is not criteria sufficient to deny citizens a means to oversee and observe that function, nor to be warned of their presence. This technology could be abused, like any other, but it also has advantage as the article points out of having most users check their behavior and thus improve safety for all. The police can't prevent crime. They can only come in and clean up afterwards. The only way one might argue that they can prevent crime is by making their presence known (high visibility), by driving the roads and walking the beat, not by sitting behind a road sign waiting to pounce like a thief in a dark alley. How did we ever get by before LEOs had the use of electronic technology... when we were all on even footing? I do not blame the Cops generally who are only doing their jobs as directed. I blame the officials that set the policy and force police to be revenuers instead of peace officers.
Truckers have been using their radios for years to warn others of police presence. How is this different?
And, as far as if you are "not doing anything wrong" you have nothing to worry about... this flies in the face of all of the wrongly accused, incarcerated and those whose property has been confiscated through forfeiture laws without due process... mistaken identity and many other factors come into play.
Police are imperfect humans also. They are not all angels. "If men were angels, no government would be necessary." - James Madison
Respectfully,
O.A.
Sit down!
In so far as that Unconstitutional Alphabet Soup Centered in Washington, none of it is Constitutionally Legal, and if ever we get a Congress and a President with cohunes, they'll roll things back to John Quincy Adam's time and we'll be on the right track again.
Too much has been done in the name of personal profit and "Pocatello Fever," we and all of our ancestry are all responsible for the travesty that we call Washington, and if we are not careful, we will all pay for it.
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