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[Cops Gone Wild]: Boston's Whiniest Edition

AngelHedgieAngelHedgie Registered User regular
edited November 2013 in Debate and/or Discourse
So, there's a negotiated proposal to fit Boston PD cruisers with GPS units, allowing for them to be tracked in real-time. This would not only promote effective deployment of units, but would add a new layer of accountability.

Needless to say, some officers have a problem with this. While there are some legitimate concerns, there's also a sense of opposition to being monitored in any form.

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    mcdermottmcdermott Registered User regular
    Oh, irony.

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    Giggles_FunsworthGiggles_Funsworth Blight on Discourse Bay Area SprawlRegistered User regular
    AngelHedgie wrote: »
    So, there's a negotiated proposal to fit Boston PD cruisers with GPS units, allowing for them to be tracked in real-time. This would not only promote effective deployment of units, but would add a new layer of accountability.

    Needless to say, some officers have a problem with this. While there are some legitimate concerns, there's also a sense of opposition to being monitored in any form.

    Have not read the article yet...

    I will say that there is a long tradition of having completely inadequate security configurations on vendor provided police equipment and this could put police lives at risk and allow the technologically savvy criminal to monitor police presence in an area remotely. The computers with publicly facing IP addresses and wide open ports being installed on squad cars comes to mind. You could remotely jack the signal from the dash cam among other things.

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    HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited November 2013
    Some freight truck companies track their vehicles via GPS. (edit - just to provide an example of GPS tracking being implemented and nobody fusses)

    I see no problem with this. There is no privacy being invaded. It's your work vehicle, not your private vehicle.

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    A Dabble Of TheloniusA Dabble Of Thelonius It has been a doozy of a dayRegistered User regular
    How do they not have that already. I thought it was standard at this point. All our cruisers have them, and we're certainly not a big city agency.

    Granted they often don't work that great.

    But yeah. That should have them. For their own dumb safety at the least.

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    JacobkoshJacobkosh Gamble a stamp. I can show you how to be a real man!Moderator mod
    This thread is breathtakingly unnecessary.

    Geth, close the thread.

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    GethGeth Legion Perseus VeilRegistered User, Moderator, Penny Arcade Staff, Vanilla Staff vanilla
    Affirmative Jacobkosh. Closing thread...

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