You are 100% correct. It appears to me that Sgt. Ken Savano is trying to be a hero to every other law enforcement agency. What he fails to realize is that many other law enforcement agencies are in support of GPS tracking use for the safety of others. He also fails to realize that many other law enforcement agencies rely on GPS for surveillance and to track their own patrol vehicles to ensure that want-to-be heros, like Sgt. Ken Savano, are doing their job.
Radar Guns aren't completely accurate all of the time.
Not true. A radar gun relies on calibration, which is required once per year. In addition, before and after every ticket is written, the office should be checking the calibration with tunning forks. This confirms the calibration is still accurate.
I have seen radar guns give innacurate readings due to some outside interference. For example, radar clocked the vehicle at 500 mph when I could visibly see the vehicle was traveling at a much slower speed, like 45 mph. Things that can cause interference are: fans in the patrol car, method employed (stationary or mobile radar), number of vehicles or a single vehicle in the target zone, hills and turns in the road.
There are also a lot of human error factors than can play into this. For example, did the office stop the correct vehicle. The office MUST visually confirm the speed and correctly identify the vehicle speeding. Can't just rely on the radar.
No, it does not. GPS only tells you your average speed between two GPS pings. Ping 1 - you are at X, ping 2 - you are at Y, your current speed is how fast you must move in order to get from X to Y in time between ping1 and ping2.
You are incorrect. With live tracking devices (like this one) the speed calculation between satellite and earth is transmitted at the speed of light. You can get ONE locate and still receive the exact speed. Accuracy is much less than 1 mph margin of error.
Our GPS tracking systems use cell signals and they will usually track from inside the trunk of a car. I doubt the glass would prevent the signal from transmitting.
Alcohol kills the wrong brain cells. But, your comment made me think of another possibility. Addiction is driven by an area of the brain called a "pleasure path." If nanomedicine can kill brain cells, it can probably kill the cells that feed addiction and cure the addiction.
I find it hard to believe that a patent would be issued on such a broad invention. The first gas engine was invented by Siegfried Marcus in 1870. Did he have a patent? I would bet the small company that holds this patent is fighting it on a very small technicality.
I currently have four kids in school. The problem is schools are taking too many days off. They take a day off every other week. It's not like the teachers are working all year and need the time off.
Good questions. I don't know that I can give the right answer, but I will give it a shot. From what I see, IA does help prevent some things, but there is a lot of looking the other way so a lot of it doesn't even get to IA. From a public standpoint, I think we are all doing the right thing by bringing this to light in a public forum. Officer misconduct can always be reported directly to the department as well. There shouldn't be any real risk to officers that are doing their job. Good officers know how to stick together too, but for the right reasons.
Doubtful they could through out the search because of it; assuming they had a warrant. It's usually what happens before the search that gets the case tossed. It's just bad police conduct.
Having been a police officer for five years, I can comment on this one. I support the job they do when it's done right, but this is completely unacceptable. These officers should be suspended for this. Unfortunately, this kind of stuff, and worse, happens every day. There are a few bad apples in every department. We need more whistle blowers out there.
I hope the government has a plan to build more jails because they will fill up fast with these fools. These guys are really taking advantage of the situation right now with a lot of people out of work.
My guess is that we will spend millions of dollars studying this. I really don't understand why someone would want to be kept alive for years because they may learn something. I can only imagine they will learn how it sucks to be kept alive by machines. How do we know they are not experiencing a lot of pain?
The original article fails to mention anything about battery life. If it's running on a watch battery, they will be lucky to get 2 hours, and that's without transmitting signals. GPS needs to have messages called, "Keep alive" messages. Keep alive messages don't report position, they just keep the connection open to ensure the device will work when you do track it. Keep alive messages are generally set for 30-90 seconds apart, and they do draw on your battery.
Right - this is true now for Massachusetts pertaing to GPS. Not true for similar investigative means. Probable cause is all that's needed to make an arrest or search a vehicle without a warrant.
Police can do almost anything by with a warrant. However, I would argue that if there is probable cause to track a vehicle with a gps tracking that it can be done without a warrant.
Radar Flaws
1. Radar signals can have interference from outside objects
2. Radar can pick up multiple vehicles at one time giving false readings
3. Police departments sometimes fail to maintain annual certification
4. Many times officer identifies and stops the wrong vehicle because they are distracted by trying to safely pull out into traffic in pursuit of the suspect vehicle.
GPS Flaws
1. Tampering
2. Bridges, parking garages, bad weather causing interference
The interferences with GPS can't really be called flaws. The main concern with GPS tracking technology is receiving and transmitting the signal. If the signal can communicate, the information will be correct. In general, GPS is reliable and accurate.
I agree; this sounds like a bad idea. A rating system may not be a bad idea, but I don't know how the sites would filter their own competition from giving them a negative rating. However, I think this should be the responsibility of each site if they want to use a rating system comment section.
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You are 100% correct. It appears to me that Sgt. Ken Savano is trying to be a hero to every other law enforcement agency. What he fails to realize is that many other law enforcement agencies are in support of GPS tracking use for the safety of others. He also fails to realize that many other law enforcement agencies rely on GPS for surveillance and to track their own patrol vehicles to ensure that want-to-be heros, like Sgt. Ken Savano, are doing their job.
Radar Guns aren't completely accurate all of the time.
Not true. A radar gun relies on calibration, which is required once per year. In addition, before and after every ticket is written, the office should be checking the calibration with tunning forks. This confirms the calibration is still accurate. I have seen radar guns give innacurate readings due to some outside interference. For example, radar clocked the vehicle at 500 mph when I could visibly see the vehicle was traveling at a much slower speed, like 45 mph. Things that can cause interference are: fans in the patrol car, method employed (stationary or mobile radar), number of vehicles or a single vehicle in the target zone, hills and turns in the road. There are also a lot of human error factors than can play into this. For example, did the office stop the correct vehicle. The office MUST visually confirm the speed and correctly identify the vehicle speeding. Can't just rely on the radar.
No, it does not. GPS only tells you your average speed between two GPS pings. Ping 1 - you are at X, ping 2 - you are at Y, your current speed is how fast you must move in order to get from X to Y in time between ping1 and ping2.
You are incorrect. With live tracking devices (like this one) the speed calculation between satellite and earth is transmitted at the speed of light. You can get ONE locate and still receive the exact speed. Accuracy is much less than 1 mph margin of error.
Our GPS tracking systems use cell signals and they will usually track from inside the trunk of a car. I doubt the glass would prevent the signal from transmitting.
Alcohol kills the wrong brain cells. But, your comment made me think of another possibility. Addiction is driven by an area of the brain called a "pleasure path." If nanomedicine can kill brain cells, it can probably kill the cells that feed addiction and cure the addiction.
I find it hard to believe that a patent would be issued on such a broad invention. The first gas engine was invented by Siegfried Marcus in 1870. Did he have a patent? I would bet the small company that holds this patent is fighting it on a very small technicality.
I currently have four kids in school. The problem is schools are taking too many days off. They take a day off every other week. It's not like the teachers are working all year and need the time off.
Why don't we all just start taking Holtzman?
Good questions. I don't know that I can give the right answer, but I will give it a shot. From what I see, IA does help prevent some things, but there is a lot of looking the other way so a lot of it doesn't even get to IA. From a public standpoint, I think we are all doing the right thing by bringing this to light in a public forum. Officer misconduct can always be reported directly to the department as well. There shouldn't be any real risk to officers that are doing their job. Good officers know how to stick together too, but for the right reasons.
Doubtful they could through out the search because of it; assuming they had a warrant. It's usually what happens before the search that gets the case tossed. It's just bad police conduct.
It's Wii this time. Next time it will be something more serious.
Having been a police officer for five years, I can comment on this one. I support the job they do when it's done right, but this is completely unacceptable. These officers should be suspended for this. Unfortunately, this kind of stuff, and worse, happens every day. There are a few bad apples in every department. We need more whistle blowers out there.
I hope the government has a plan to build more jails because they will fill up fast with these fools. These guys are really taking advantage of the situation right now with a lot of people out of work.
My guess is that we will spend millions of dollars studying this. I really don't understand why someone would want to be kept alive for years because they may learn something. I can only imagine they will learn how it sucks to be kept alive by machines. How do we know they are not experiencing a lot of pain?
The original article fails to mention anything about battery life. If it's running on a watch battery, they will be lucky to get 2 hours, and that's without transmitting signals. GPS needs to have messages called, "Keep alive" messages. Keep alive messages don't report position, they just keep the connection open to ensure the device will work when you do track it. Keep alive messages are generally set for 30-90 seconds apart, and they do draw on your battery.
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Right - this is true now for Massachusetts pertaing to GPS. Not true for similar investigative means. Probable cause is all that's needed to make an arrest or search a vehicle without a warrant.
Police can do almost anything by with a warrant. However, I would argue that if there is probable cause to track a vehicle with a gps tracking that it can be done without a warrant.
Radar Flaws 1. Radar signals can have interference from outside objects 2. Radar can pick up multiple vehicles at one time giving false readings 3. Police departments sometimes fail to maintain annual certification 4. Many times officer identifies and stops the wrong vehicle because they are distracted by trying to safely pull out into traffic in pursuit of the suspect vehicle. GPS Flaws 1. Tampering 2. Bridges, parking garages, bad weather causing interference The interferences with GPS can't really be called flaws. The main concern with GPS tracking technology is receiving and transmitting the signal. If the signal can communicate, the information will be correct. In general, GPS is reliable and accurate.
I agree; this sounds like a bad idea. A rating system may not be a bad idea, but I don't know how the sites would filter their own competition from giving them a negative rating. However, I think this should be the responsibility of each site if they want to use a rating system comment section.
Exactly, it's stupid to plast these images of yourself all over the internet. How are you going to cover that up?
You can't necessarily sue for anything. An attorney can even be liable for bringing a frivolous case to court.