They can't find this guy, but today we have a success story?
Something STINKS, readers (Sig Heil)!!!!
"Man pleads guilty to botched robbery; GPS used in arrest" by Jonathan Saltzman, Globe Staff | June 18, 2008
Global positioning devices have become de rigueur for many motorists who need help with directions. But for law enforcement authorities, the devices can also be an effective crime-fighting tool, especially when secretly attached to automobiles used as getaway cars....
Yeah, they always introduce the totalitarian tool as GOOD!
State Police had put a Global Positioning System device on the getaway car....
The day of the second crime, federal and state authorities followed the car for several hours until [the robber] allegedly stopped outside an East Boston Savings Bank in Everett around 4 p.m. His two passengers got out and tried to rob the bank, but fled without any cash, according to an FBI affidavit. Because of the GPS equipment, the FBI and State Police quickly found the fleeing car, chased it to South Boston, and arrested the three men.
WTF?
Following guys around, etc, etc, letting them DO THEIR CRIME -- or try to (fled without cash?).
Meanwhile, Bush can lock up people for no reason and forever?
SOMETHING FRIKKIN' STINKS, readers!!!
Timothy Watkins, a federal defender representing [the robber], said he was unaware how often authorities have used GPS equipment for surveillance in Massachusetts.
Federal law allows it, as long as the officers attach the device to the outside of the car, because police can already follow automobiles, he said.
What is to stop them from just tossing one on any car, at any time?
"If you can follow a car visually, there's no reason you can't track it with the aid of a [GPS] device," he said.
Still, Watkins said he was troubled by the use of GPS in surveillance because it enables police officers located miles away to track the movements of a vehicle without probable cause. "It does smack of Big Brother," he said.
David Procopio, a spokesman for the State Police, confirmed that state troopers use GPS in criminal investigations but declined to provide specifics "for strategic reasons."
"Strategic reasons?"
Well, WE ARE PAYING for your shit fascism, sir!!
It is supposed to SERVE and PROTECT, not SPY and PROBE!!!!
Oh, yeah, sorry. Sig Heil!
If you want to read about the robbers, go here.
