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California Tracks Parolees With GPS, Then Ignores Alerts

Posted by Soulskill on from the put-google-on-the-case dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Several years ago, California decided to require high-risk parolees, such as gang members and sex offenders, to wear GPS monitoring devices. The idea was to relay location information to law enforcement to ensure that the convicts stay where they're supposed to. Unfortunately, the state often misses acting on those alerts, making the devices both a lesson in the pitfalls of technology management and a massive exercise in largely useless spending."

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  1. Re:well yeah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You make salient points. Unfortunately, you couch them in the diction and grammar of a twelve-year-old, and so nobody will respect what you have to say.

  2. Ha-HA! You have fallen into my clever little trap by denzacar · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    i'm sorry, but you set up again a false conflict: that if i think that that financial arrangement is abusive of taxpayers, then i hate police officers.

    That was SARCASM... fucking asshole.

    Also, there is nothing abusive about Tassone's pension agreement.
    RTFM - the guy was planning to retire after 20 years.
    So, he busted his ass for that time, pulling in as much overtime as he could.
    He also suffered injuries in the line of duty.

    Those 20 years are probably more like 30-40 years of 9-to-5 work, but he did them in 20.
    Good for him.

    Should everyone be allowed to do the same?
    Work hard, pull in as much overtime as you can (and have it on record as such), put in as much into your pension-fund and retire early.
    Plus, don't get fired so someone could buy a third mansion for his cat.
    Fuck yeah!

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