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Los Angeles Flirts With Pre-Crime (washingtonpost.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The city of Los Angeles is considering a new plan to fight prostitution: sending letters to men who solicit prostitutes in the hopes that the letters are seen by family members. Why not just arrest them while they're doing it? Because these letters aren't being sent to the houses of men who were convicted, or even arrested. Instead, automated license plate readers would scan the cars driving down streets known to have a prostitution problem, and the letters would be sent to the address associated with those vehicles. An article about the plan says, "There isn't 'potential' for abuse here, this is a legislated abuse of technology that is already controversial when it's used by police for the purpose of seeking stolen vehicles, tracking down fugitives and solving specific crimes."
If a baseless accusation of being a John ruins your marriage, you got bigger problems to worry about. I'd recommend you visit a good divorce attorney tomorrow.
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Just steal a car before you start scoping out the whores. It works in GTA.
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What's that? Prostitutes are on my way home from work? Thanks for letting me know!
That's just your inner rape culture talking. There's no such thing as false positives or false accusations.
A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed "To whom it may concern."
"If someone is accused of parking in a handicap space, it doesn't matter if it's a handicap space or not. They're just not the kind of person we want parking in our parking lots."
I'd start paying hookers to hang out in front of city hall so their families can get letters like this.