OT: The Future Is Now in Law Enforcement!

[Thomas Rogers]

Police State Technology: Implanting a GPS-microchip in the body of a human being, using a high powered sniper rifle...



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[Rodger Tellefson]

That's just down right scarry. Just like an atomic bomb is scarry in the wrong hands. :wacko::wacko::wacko:

 

[Travis Munday]

I'm more worried about RFIDs...

 

[TomT]

I think it's a great idea. Better then a bullet. I can definitely see when it would come in handy. I'm for anything that helps cops do their job better.

 

[Josh Langel]

We're in trouble. The law enforcement will be the first to turn their backs when crap hits the fan in America. Don't worry about an enemy from another country, just wait until we have a catastrophic disaster (i.e., Hurricane Katrina), then we'll have our enemy.



Corruption + Technology = Bad news



Granted, not all law enforcement is corrupt or egomaniac nuts, but I see it as a large group of people who have to feel as if they are in control in order to be respected.



The real heroes are the military men who are fighting for our country. You see all these law enforcement officers tasering kids and walking around like they're some kind of tough people, but give them a ticket to Iraq and see how tough and thug like they can be.



We're in trouble. Look out.

 

[Todd Cloutier]

How about RFID powder?

 

[TomT]

Perhaps Mud if our courts actually put away criminals and did not let them right back out on the street to commit more crimes then our cops wouldn't be so defensive. Yeah there's lots of crappy cops out there. The problem is nobody want to be a cop anymore and it's extremely hard to find good ones these days. And with our present judicial system it doesn't take a good cop long to go sour.

 

[Tom Schindler]

Mud,



You think the same as I do. Power equals corruption. Too many people are willing to hand absolute power to police. That is a big mistake. It breeds nothing but corruption within the police.





Tom

 

[C W]

The first time a case involving that rifle gets to the courts, the use of that rifle will be found unconstitutional. And if it's not, this country's in big trouble.

 

[Bill V]

Oh, come on, that's not the future of law enforcement.



The future of law enforcement is--ROBOCOP!!!



"I'd buy that for a dollar!"



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[Dre L]

I agree with this, but only if they are required to shoot people in the @$$.



That way, the chance of the shot being lethal is minimized, and you must prove beyond the shadow of a doubt, that their @$$ was there.

 

[CountyMounty]

I really think there are much more important things that could be developed for law enforcement but this thing could have some use I guess. I wouldn't get too paranoid. I doubt there will be police snipers waiting on all the roofs to inject everyone with the chip. (Although I'm sure sometime in the future, maybe even in my lifetime, everyone will have some type of ID chip implanted in them, and maybe you can even scan it a Starbucks to pay for your coffee) I could see its use for tracking terrorist or suspects in seriouse cases like homicide or a serial rapist or something. I dont think it would be found unconstitutional as I would assume in order to use it the police would need a warrant to implant the device much the same as adding the tracking devices used today. I am all for anything that helps make us safer specifically as it pertains to counter-terrorism. I doubt that this rifle will become a commonly used tool for most law enforcement but as I said before it certainly could prove useful in some circumstances. Is does look like the company is trying to market it for a variety of uses but I just dont see police using it as a common tool.

 

[Bill V]

I don't think it would be found to be constitutional, to do it involuntarily. The only reason that the tracking devices some criminals wear today are constitutionally legal is because technically, they're voluntary. The people wearing them can always opt not to wear one, simply by returning to jail full-time.



Although combining Nobleman's "shot in the @ss" idea with your "paying at Starbucks" idea,



"Here's your triple mocha espresso latte half caff, sir. Please swipe your ass here."

 

[TomT]

We certainly wouldn't want to make our criminals do something they would not like. We're a civilized society!

 

[CountyMounty]

lol @ swipe your a## . I was not refering to tracking devices worn by those on house arrest or probation but rather to things like tracking devices on cars and such or wire taps or listening devices those generally require a search warrant issued. I would certainly think that if LEO's could prove to a magistrate that they had reason to believe that someone was a suspected terrorist or rapist or something like that then cetainly let them snipe em and track him. Then when they do arrest him it would be fun to explain to him that red bump he has been scratching at on his a##.