NYPD To Google: Stop Revealing the Location of Police Checkpoints (nypost.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Wednesday February 6, 2019 @07:00PM from the location-acquired dept.

schwit1 shares a report from the New York Post: The NYPD is calling on Google to yank a feature from its Waze traffic app that tips off drivers to police checkpoints -- warning it could be considered "criminal conduct," according to a report on Wednesday. The department sent a cease-and-desist letter over the weekend demanding Google disable the crowd-sourced app's function that allows motorists to pinpoint police whereabouts, StreetsBlog reported. "Individuals who post the locations of DWI checkpoints may be engaging in criminal conduct since such actions could be intentional attempts to prevent and/or impair the administration of the DWI laws and other relevant criminal and traffic laws," wrote Acting Deputy Commissioner for Legal Matters Ann Prunty in the letter, according to the website. My $0.02 is that the NYPD loses on first amendment grounds.

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Good for them by mysidia · 2019-02-06 20:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Contrary to the ridiculous police claims... the Red Light Cameras and Speed Traps are a greedy money grab. Owned by private companies that take most of the cut, at least typically.... these things use a highly dubious process of ticketing people that
involves police accusers signing off on "violations" they haven't actually witnessed.