re: Cops put GPS tracker on man’s car, charge him with theft for removing it

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Irrelevant. That doesn’t make it ok for our police to be installing tracking devices on his car without his consent. That goes beyond what we as a supposedly free society should tolerate, and every time we give in and allow stuff like this to happen because of muh bad guys we become less and less free.

We used to not even need a warrant.

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My position is that being an officer of the law today isn’t a profession most people in modern society are equipped for. The positions and situations they witness and are involved in aren’t something to envy. People making life or death decisions and being held accountable for every action made during circumstances beyond their control isn’t something I think 99.99% of the population is prepared to face. Yes, there are POS cops, but maybe sometimes protecting more people’s freedom means being a POS in certain instances.

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I think most of them are good people for sure. But the police apparatus as a whole has been corrupted by "revenue" from policing as they call it (speeding tickets, civil asset forfeiture) and the ever increasing militarization of the force. The war on drugs certainly hasn’t helped matters from a civil liberties standpoint. The police aren’t protecting our freedoms when they use CAF to take our property, spend the day running radar instead of investigating burglaries, filling prison beds because there is a financial incentive to do so, jailing people for victimless crimes, etc.

I grew up in a law enforcement family, I know what it’s like and they are good people, but we should never allow stuff like this to happen because "it’s a tough job". We give them power over us with the expectation that it not be abused, intentionally or not.

Agreed. Besides, it would be much cheaper for them to just buy your location from apple anyway.

Little known fact:

Behind each "Entering Baton Rouge City Limits" sign, there is a license plate reader.

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They can with a warrant. I don’t like the idea of the police using tracking devices on us period though, even with a warrant

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Just because they have a warrant doesnt mean the guy has to consent to it being in his vehicle. If he finds it and discards it, too fricking bad.

They have a complete record of all your phone calls, all your text and all your movement. If you have more than a dozen guns they know where you live at all times. They have a record of everything posted on here as well.

You being free is a better illusion than anything you will see in Vegas

Did they serve the warrant? The guy finds some device on his car, no way he knows what it is or who put it there.

I'd deactivate it.

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We have the most incarcerated population on the planet

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We could probably stand to put double that in jail for a while.