Police Are Tagging Fleeing Cars With GPS Darts to Avoid Dangerous Pursuits
Police Are Tagging Fleeing Cars With GPS Darts to Avoid Dangerous Pursuits
Police departments across the country are increasingly tagging fleeing cars with GPS tracking darts, instead of engaging in dangerous chases.
SURELY these cops can be totally trusted to not use this when they see an attractive woman they want to follow around, or a vulnerable minority they want to harass.
I mean, the Japanese police has been doing this for decades with paintball guns. Definitely better than high speed chases.
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Most of Lemmy: Nuh uh they're gonna use it to abolish the thirteenth amendment and stalk cute girls.
I'm begging you to shut the fuck up. Every whisper of cop news has some dipshit with a comment like this. We get it, you don't like police, go harass Facebook boomers about it.
Nuh uh they’re gonna use it to abolish the thirteenth amendment and stalk cute girls.
It absolutely is an improvement. They absolutely will abuse it. Both can be true.
I’m begging you to shut the fuck up.
No U!
Right? This tech is way more targeted so I doubt it would be used for mass surveillance.
I'm sick of it too. As someone who generally avoids police, the amount of angsty anti-police propaganda on Lemmy is ridiculous.
Silent, small, and easily hideable gps trackers already exist that would make much more sense to use than this.
This seems harder to abuse than the regular GPS trackers they've had for a long time. The dart probably makes a loud noise when it hits the car and might damage the paint. If they're harassing someone wouldn't they rather quietly stick a tracker to the bottom of a car where it wouldn't be noticed?
Abuse of technology is not the fault of the technology itself. You didn't blame the gun for misuse of guns by the police do you? IMHO, this tech is better than the government having EVERY car GPS tracked
It illegal to track someone like that without a warrant. Instead, they can use the easily accessible legal privately owned ALPR system to see their habits.
I don't think legality is a concern of someone planning on stalking or harassment
Uhhh it does sound a bit far fetched to think they'll start shooting these darts at random people? I don't think it's a very discreet process. Something that could happen but I don't foresee this becoming a common thing
Anyone start a pool on when the first news story of abusing this tech will happen? Because I want in lol.
Wellp it's better than driving someone into a ditch but damn this is gonna get abused.
This isn't as bad as facial recognition
It's not as bad as what they currently do, but it's trivial to foresee the abuses of this technology.
Unoriginal bastards stole the idea from Batman!
I'm my county a high percentage of cars have GPS trackers fitted already - by the owner - because of the high vehicle theft rate.
I imagine if that police here just have to call up the tracking company to achieve the same result - something to think about actually (I don't have one, my car isn't worth much)
I think if you're in a car chase type situation, firing a dart is probably quicker than accessing someone else's database
The problem in the US is that the cars are stolen and just get ditched immediately after any interaction with the cops. This helps them find the car, not catch the criminals. Obviously high speed pursuits are even worse, but this doesn't really solve the problem.
What they really need are payloads which can electronically fingerprint the occupant's phones and smart watches and shit.