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Re:Cops put GPS tracker on man’s car, charge him with theft ... by ceejayoz on Monday November 18, 2019 @05:31PM (#21568855)
So if I'm a cop and I want to manufacture probable cause to raid your house, all I have to do is attach a tracking device somewhere stupidly obvious on your car and wait for it to stop working?
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Re:Cops put GPS tracker on man’s car, charge him with theft ... by staticautomatic on Monday November 18, 2019 @05:40PM (#21568923)
Or claim that a confidential informant said drugs were being sold at the house, or say they thought they were raiding a different house they had a warrant to raid but got the address wrong, or claim that they smelled weed, or claim they heard a ruckus and needed to investigate possible disorderly conduct, or any number of other things.
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Re:Cops put GPS tracker on man’s car, charge him with theft ... by justinclift on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @09:11AM (#21572925)
Why not just skip all that?

You could literally walk up to ~near the suspect's car with the GPS tracker, have it give a few results (recorded), then walk off with the GPS yourself.

Who'd believe the perp's claims of innocence, that they'd never seen the tracker (etc)...

/s

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