The media is full of the story about the black Harvard University professor who was arrested for disorderly conduct after a Cambridge, Massachusetts police officer investigated a report of a break-in at the professor’s home. It turns out that the reported burglar was just the professor trying to get his own door open. Police Report [...]

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It will be interesting to see how popular the new website & service Trapster.com will become. Trapster is a smartphone application (iPhone, Blackberry, Android & Nokia) that lets drivers communicate the location of speed traps, cameras and checkpoints, all in real time.
Since the phone’s GPS sensors know where the phone is, a driver passing a [...]

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Remember the film “Minority Report” with Tom Cruise? Cruise worked for the Department of Pre-Crime. Pre-Crime was able to determine who was going to commit crimes in advance, so they were able to send Cruise out to arrest and lock up people before they had done anything wrong.
This is called preventive detention. It is unconstitutional; [...]

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