Did the Founding Fathers imagine as much crime as we have when they drafted the constitution?
I’m not questioning the court’s ruling. I agree with it. It just occurs to me that cities push the envelope on civil liberties because we have so many shitty citizens out there.
Meanwhile, idiots like AOC say that the problem is we have too many prisons. We should do a better job at catching less citizens committing crimes.
The use of surveillance planes in Baltimore to track people’s movement for long periods without a warrant is a violation of the Fourth Amendment, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
The case revolved around an air surveillance program run by the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) called Aerial Investigation Research (AIR). Beginning in 2016, BPD announced it would be using cameras attached to planes to conduct aerial surveillance to fight crime. The program was discontinued in response to public anger over the snooping.
But in 2019, the program returned as AIR. The city approved a contract between BPD and a private company in April 2020. During daylight hours, the planes would fly over the city recording images of the outdoor activity of about 90 percent of Baltimore. The images were stored and could be used to track the movements of individuals connected to particular crimes like homicides, carjackings, and armed robberies.
But the police did not request a warrant to go back and look at this collected data. A community activist group, Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), sued, noting that its advocacy involves traveling to and visiting locations of crimes and gun violence, meaning that its members’ movements could be tracked by AIR. It argued that this unwarranted surveillance constituted a violation of members’ Fourth Amendment rights and asked the courts to issue an injunction to stop it.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote, “A person does not surrender all Fourth Amendment protection by venturing into the public sphere.”
And yet the courts are still allowing people to be tracked by their smartphones?
There is one sky in the eye system that was developed by the Military. In short the drone is filming the whole city at once. Too much to track anyone in real time. However, if you say a man was shot at Colfax & 14th at 3:15 pm you can pull up the drone info, back it up to 3:15 pm, zoom in on Colfax & 14th and watch the whole thing go down AND then follow the perps to wherever they go. Very useful in something like a kidnapping.
That is a win across the board. Big Brother only knows to zoom in and observe on what has happened but it is too much info to be all knowing. But then again, as there are Democrats in the world it could be abused to zoom in and see that a Trump supporter did with his day just because they can.
Very sad. I like the idea of LEO being able to get the bad guys but I don’t like the idea of Democrats designating a race as ‘public enemy #1’ and then just following whoever disagrees with them because “terrorist”.
Because of Democrats we can’t have nice things is the point I’m driving at.
“Because of Democrats we can’t have nice things is the point I’m driving at.”
You sure used a lot of words to get there…..
Oops. ^^
Messed up my blockquote
You agreed to it.
“Did the Founding Fathers imagine as much crime as we have when they drafted the constitution?”
…..you know that while the Founding Fathers were at the constitutional convention the townspeople of Philadelphia were stoning a witch to death, right?
Democrats also believe if you watch someone you are targeting long enough you’re going to see them do something wrong.
That’s how THEY are.