Sheriff Uses Stingray Over 300 Times Without Warrant

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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/county-sheriff-has-used-stingray-over-300-times-with-no-warrant/

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The sheriff in San Bernardino County—east of Los Angeles County—has deployed a stingray hundreds of times without a warrant, and under questionable judicial authority.



In response to a public records request, the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department (SBSD) sent Ars, among other outlets, a rare example of a template for a "pen register and trap and trace order" application. (In the letter, county lawyers claimed this was a warrant application template, when it clearly is not.) The SBSD is the law enforcement agency for the entire county, the 12th-most populous county in the United States, and the fifth-most populous in California."

Good grief.

 

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So the question becomes, who will police the police?!

 

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That's what gets me. The government is trampling all over privacy and security with powers that have yet to stop a single attack, but how many cops have been convicted of the hundreds of shootings in the U.S over the last few years? All the government has done about it is take away their military toys. Last I checked those hundreds didn't die by .50 Barrett sniper rifles, they died by standard police sidearms or less. I'm not anti-police, but I'm far less worried about a terrorist beheading me than I am some local cop with a power trip or having a bad day putting a .40 slug into my chest and getting a slap on the wrist or pat on the back for it.