Comments on: Good Cop, Bad Cop GPS Use

By: boiseBob

boiseBob — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:07:07 +0000

Reminded of the movie “The Thief” with James Caan. The cops are on his tail and he finds A GPS in his car so he takes it and puts it on a Greyhound bus destined for wherever.

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:03:05 +0000

what do you do when a couple innocent kids find it?

By: davis

davis — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:35:34 +0000

Hey–suddenly the copper “copper” case gets a lead on drug cases. Park a few illegal drugs, a little meth and a few bags of pot in some abandoned house or barn somewhere, GPS- it, and wait for the perps to show.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 03:47:24 +0000

2 questions… not ment to start an arguement….
1 if you were to find a tracking device on your car and threw it away…. would it be theft?
2 does that make it ok to put tracking devices on cop cars?

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:53:24 +0000

I would think someone putting a device on a vehical to track someones movement would be very close to stalking. Or is it not stalking if it is a cop that is doing it?

EDITOR NOTE–The Supremes declared it is a “search” without permission.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:57:05 +0000

It is a pretty simple deal to get a Judge to sign off on this kind of thing if the deal is legit. Do it by the book or your case will get tossed. The Constitution protects all of us “innocent until proven guilty” works for me.

Just think back to the Nixon years (if you are old enough) and the enemies list and all the people on it who simply spoke out against Mr. Nixon and his policies. A fair number of his goons went to “club fed” for a few years.

Civil Liberties and Constitutional Rights need to be protected NO MATTER THE CIRCUMSTANCES! Bad guys will get caught by following the rules.

By: smeg

smeg — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:09:27 +0000

Guardian,
Before you accuse the FBI of doing something illegal, get the time line right. This was unclear case law. The reason it went to the Supremes was for a ruling on the legality of the act of putting a GPS on a vehicle with out a warrant. The court ruled, and NOW it requires a warrant. Prior to this ruling, it did not require a warrant. The FBI did nothing illegal in this case.

EDITOR NOTE–FBI revealed recently in Missouri US District Court that they did the GPS activity “in the low two thousands” each year. If you read the details of the Monday Supremes case, the FBI did indeed act illegally. They were not within the time frame or geography of a court order that had previously been issued. You have to play by the rules or forfeit the game. In this case, a convicted drug kingpin could go free because the FBI disregarded the law. The Supremes decision also clarified the need for a search warrant.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:12:18 +0000

Think it’s more Smart Cop, Stupid Cop.

Ericin 1300(Is that your real name?): I thought point was clear: Messing with someone else’s vehicle (by putting a GPS on it) because you *suspect* he might be a bad guy is a no-no.
Messing with something that you have permission to mess with (by putting a GPS in it) is OK — and then if the bad guy happens to steal the GPS along with the item it’s in, that’s his tough luck.
You could hide a GPS in your own vehicle, and track it if someone stole it.

Got it?

By: ericn1300

ericn1300 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 04:51:49 +0000

So what’s your point? Are material goods now people too? Good thing they don’t have the money to start a super pac also.