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DEA Cameras Tracking Hundreds of Millions of Car Journeys Across the US
itwbennett writes: A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration program set up in 2008 to keep tabs on cars close to the U.S.-Mexican border has been gradually expanded nationwide and is regularly used by other law enforcement agencies in their hunt for suspects. The extent of the system, which is said to contain hundreds of millions of records on motorists and their journeys, was disclosed in documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union as part of a Freedom of Information Act request.
The house I grew up in was right next door to a meth lab for some time. The neighbor converted it into a rental and in move the meth heads, and we could not sell. Surprise!
So we decided to help law enforcement get them busted. We would call whenever there were 20 or more people over and they were actively cooking meth. Strangely, the cops would just quickly stop, say one sentence like "turn the music down" or "keep up the good work" and drive off.
Months later I found out why when there was a massive bust on my front lawn. Well, sort of. The DEA sprUng their trap! They busted one guy for negligence on his 9 f-ing kids. I talked to the DEA agents and gave them as much info as I could.
The cops refused to step on the DEA's toes in this case. Had the cops just once went to the front door of the place when we called they would have busted 20 people right in the middle of meth manufacturing. But instead, they waited for the DEA to finish their sting operation. 1 guy busted for being a shitty dad raising his kids in a "suspected meth lab", because all they had on him was a whiteboard with a barely legible meth recipe and a washing machine full of syringes as proof. It was nicknamed "the syringe house" in the news!
in my experience, fuck the DEA.