Spying is local too......look no further than the Los Angeles Police Department

[Fire Walk With Me]

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http://www.laactivist.com/2013/06/21/bringing-the-argument-home-about-domestic-spying

Besides the SARs and iWatch programs, the LAPD also has several cameras positioned around the city that use TrapWire technology, a predictive software that can allegedly detect suspicious behavior in connection with terrorism.

Another technology employed by the LAPD is a suitcase-sized device called StingRay. It mimics a cell phone tower, tricking every cell phone in a neighborhood into connecting to it. Once connected, police can grab information from everyone’s phone in the area, not just the suspects.

StingRay was purchased with Dept. of Homeland Security Funds. It was meant for counterterrorism, but according to documents obtained by LA Weekly, in 2012, the LAPD used StingRay 21 times within four-months in burglary, drug and murder investigations.

The LAPD has said their use of StingRay is legal. However, the department remains extremely secretive about it, declining to explain how the devices are used, how much money was spent on them or whether or not the department adequately explains the power of the technology to judges when seeking search warrants.

(Much more at the link.)


For more reading:

How LAPD are made into a tentacle of the DHS

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022154200

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. People are kidding themselves if they think the

police are not going to start using these technologies on the general public. Asset seizure will drive the use of these spy technologies.

[Demeter]

2. The LAPD used to stick to strong-arm bullying and physical violence and entrapments

Now they are going for the upgrades.

Lucky LA.

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. Under Special Order 1 and iWatch, all suspicious information goes directly to DHS. Meaning Occupy.

How LAPD are made into a tentacle of the DHS

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022154200

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Kick