A battle has been raging the last several months over the use of GPS tracking by law enforcement without a warrant. It all began when Wisconsin’s State supreme court ruled the police were issued a valid warrant to track the vehicle movements of one Michael Sveum, who had been suspected of stalking a woman back [...]
Last week we highlighted two GPS tracking phone apps; one of the apps in question was geared towards recovering your lost phone, while the second app was for parents who wanted to keep tabs on their kid. Well, it turns out the latter type of app is equally adept at performing the former operation– as [...]
There's a certain thrill to getting behind the wheel and challenging the long arm of the law by exhibiting one's lead foot. While many have the need for speed, that greedy instinct to rule the road can often meet a tragic end. Just as often as people knowingly violate speed limits, there are also those [...]
The controversy surrounding warrant-less GPS tracking seems easily tempered when the result of said tracking is the justifiable arrest of a repeated sex offender, burglar or drug trafficker. Even with recent results of warrant-less GPS tracking of U.S. residents leading to the apprehension of actual criminals, there are probably plenty more undocumented incidences in which [...]
Portland, Oregon is often perceived the liberal-leaning, sweet-smelling rose of the Pacific Northwest. Fairy tale perception aside, all cities have their issues. Gang violence is a rather serious one that's plagued Rip City as of late. Last month, a gang-related shooting spree in the downtown area left local authorities searching for solutions to, if not [...]
The D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services does not have the best track record. Close to a dozen of young offenders under the agency's supervision have recently been hit with murder raps, and 6 unfortunate delinquents with hopes of turning their lives around have met an untimely demise. Rather than carry on hoping that a [...]
The last few weeks you couldn’t randomly toss a homing device in the air without it latching onto a story about the use of GPS tracking in the law enforcement arena. Okay, you could have, but none of those other stories ever seemed to go anywhere. Back on August 28th, the U.S. Court of Appeals [...]
Sometimes when former college athletes are out of the spotlight for some time, the media will see fit to look back upon their glory days by tracking them down to answer the question, “Where are they now?” The Hamilton County, Indiana police had raised that very same inquiry about former Indiana University basketball hero Todd [...]
After the court case of State vs. Sveum, the Supreme Court ruled that it’s perfectly legal for a police officer to secretly attach a GPS tracking device to the car of a possible suspect. According to them, the act of tracking a potential suspect violates neither personal rights nor the 4th Amendment (right against search [...]
Police for years now have been using GPS technology to both stop criminals from escaping and for keeping tabs on them after they’ve been caught, thus making it an extremely successful tool in law enforcement. Recently, however, stories have begun to surface regarding GPS systems that are being used on the wrong side of the [...]
