http://www.switched.com/2008/05/19/gps-increasingly-found-in-law-enforcements-tool-box/ Switched Comments for GPS Increasingly Found In Law Enforcement's Tool Box http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2008/05/19/gps-increasingly-found-in-law-enforcements-tool-box/http://www.switched.com/2008/05/19/gps-increasingly-found-in-law-enforcements-tool-box/ So we keep making harsher laws - and lo and behold - more crimes "crop up". Now someone with just .08 alcohol level, who was driving a vehicle, is publicly labelled a murderer, since the brilliant trained masses now "know it's the very next thing that will happen" if something draconian isn't done.
Then all the internet self praising "I'm a saint" types that can't spell or form proper sentences chime in about how terrible that person is and how they would never do such a thing and what a great scourge the SUSPECT is on society...
So, of course, once again, we have the need for a new "law enforcement tool". Everything is a new "tool" nowadays, too. Have you noticed that ?
People supposedly carry around "coping tools". Police need a new tool twice a year. Tasers, gps bracelets, homeland security US citizen databases, "drunk driving total pullover everyone checkpoints", vehicle confiscation for loud music, required blood drawing, drug dogs at all US public schools, metal detectors at all schools, total gun ban areas... it goes on and on and on...
I frankly do wonder what the police used to do just a few decades ago when they didn't have all these hundreds of new tools and draconian laws... ( Oh yeah, there was this thing called common sense ).
Now, however, like I just read at the big A-lphabet network yesterday, " Joe policeman gets a 1,000 beats a minute racing heart everytime he makes a traffic stop, because you never know what might happen".
I guess that's the new MENTALity. Yeah, it's mental.
Welcome to the GPS tracking. My golly, did the article mention child molesters - I think so - I guess the 2,000 feet within any public school law wasn't working.... and everyone knows there's a child molester lurking around every corner... oh and a gun toting crazed maniac, and a soon to be killer drving citizen who just broke some traffic law, and an abusive spouse, a murderous rampaging school student, and disgruntled going postal postal worker... yeah.. the list is endless, huh.
That's why a hundred new tools aren't enough, right ?
I don't trust the crazy new draconian media freak show "COPS" playing 24/7/365 anymore, but I'm sure thousands of insane blabbering fellow citizens (and suddenly blog appearing officers and former officers) will shriek with fear that to not immediately obey the commands of an officer means " you are asking for it" and "need to be beaten or tasered" and of course, "should be wearing an ankle GPS" and "got what you deserved".
It must be too many foreigners here, all pretending they know it all, all of a sudden. ]]>May 20th 2008 10:07AMhttp://www.switched.com/2008/05/19/gps-increasingly-found-in-law-enforcements-tool-box/http://www.switched.com/2008/05/19/gps-increasingly-found-in-law-enforcements-tool-box/ if the stalking and custody laws were fair we most likely wouldn't have that problem to begin with... so there are a few cases, all the gps in the world and out of the world won't stop that.. sides so you lose a few people nothing to get all technical, or even create a bunch of useless laws that violate others rights over, there are plenty to spare.]]>Jul 31st 2008 3:12PM