Comment on The Feds' Vehicle 'Kill Switch' Mandate Is a Gross (and Dangerous) Violation of Privacy | Jon Miltimore

riodoro1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So any crime committed while in a car is free-game? No need for license plates, just buy a generic looking car and never stop.

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  • riodoro1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You just said license plates dude.

    All around the world when the police sees you speeding in a school zone and you don’t stop they won’t go and speed in a school zone as well. But we also don’t sell guns in supermarkets and later have a problem with gun violence.

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    • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What I said was why would someone that plans to commit a crime have a license plate? Since they just have to not stop and the police can’t do anything if they can’t chase.

      Chasing sucks, I 100% agree it’s a terrible solution. But what other solution is there that can be implemented? Please come up with one so that we can actually do away with chasing. Somebody work on this problem.

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      • Rediphile@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You say ‘would happen if they didn’t chase cars?’ as if it’s hypothetical, but many places already do this.

        So, what happens? They will turn on lights and sirens speed up a bit and make it clear the car should pull over. If it doesn’t, they continue to follow it with lights and sirens. If the bad guy starts driving in a manner dangerous to the public specifically in an attempt to flee, they back off. And then radio the vehicle description to a unit further ahead. Sometimes the unit ahead is unmarked, finds it, and is able to follow at safe speed. Later try to arrest occupants when they get out of can be pinned with confidence. There are also other tools available like traffic cameras and aircraft.

        Yes, this sometimes causes people to get away. But it also sometimes saves lives of random bystanders…so some places decide it as a worthwhile trade off. And no these countries aren’t wastelands with Mad Max roads of death.

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    • el_bhm@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Result of communism.

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