Wireless, GPS-Loaded 'Bait Car' Traps Thieves

captainClassLoader writes: "The Washington Post is reporting that a late-model car, loaded with wireless surveillance gear, a remote kill switch and GPS, is being left (unlocked, presumably) on the streets of the Washington, D.C. metro area as 'bait' for car thieves. This article reports that they've just made their first bust with the vehicle."

Comments

Hmm, Didn't I see this on COPS about 5 years ago.

[UnkaFuggly]

This is not news in any sense, except possibly in the "local news sucks" sense. Slashdot... Maybe you ned to get a few more people with a bit more ability to discern what are actually important changes & announcements in technology and what is merely recycled "Real-People" "stories".

footing the bill

[tps12]

This demonstrates perfectly how the job of the police has gone from "protecting the law-abiding" to "hunting down criminals." What is the point of locking up some guy for trying to steal a car that was designed to be stolen?

I do not want my tax dollars paying for a car to be used as bait. I do not want to pay for cops to pretend to be drug dealers to catch would-be customers. I don't want to fund cops' propositioning prostitutes, and I don't want to pay for gigantor magnets that pull the guns out of people's pockets.

Someone needs to rein these guys in.