Listen to Alex Jones
  • Midas Resources

    Listen to Alex Jones

    • Prison Planet.tv
    • Pre-Order The Obama Deception
  • Police Using G.P.S. Units as Evidence in Crimes

    AP
    Sunday, Aug 31, 2008

    Like millions of motorists, Eric Hanson used a Global Positioning System device in his Chevrolet TrailBlazer to find his way around. He probably did not expect that prosecutors would use it, too — to help convict him of killing four family members.

    Prosecutors in suburban Chicago analyzed data from the Garmin G.P.S. device to pinpoint where Mr. Hanson had been on the morning after his parents were fatally shot and his sister and brother-in-law bludgeoned to death in 2005. He was convicted of the killings this year and sentenced to death.

    Mr. Hanson’s trial was among recent criminal cases in which the authorities used such navigation devices to help establish a defendant’s whereabouts. Experts say such evidence will almost certainly become more common in court as the systems become more affordable and show up in more vehicles.

    (Article continues below)

    “There’s no real doubt,” said Alan Brill, a computer forensics expert in Minnesota who has worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Secret Service. “This follows every other technology that turns out to have information of forensic value. I think what we’re seeing is evolutionary.”

    Using technology to track a person’s location is nothing new, but the popularity of the Global Positioning System — in cars, cellphones and other handheld devices — gives the authorities a powerful tool to track suspects.

    Full article here

    Prison Planet.tv Members Can Watch Fall Of The Republic Right Now Online - Don't Miss Out! Get Your Subscription Today!

    Survive

    CANCER CONSPIRACY? Are "they" suppressing the cure? Will YOU be the next victim? Learn the Secret Truth! - READ FULL STORY

     

    • Social bookmarks
    • Social bookmarks
    • Email this article
    • Email this article
    • Print
    • Print this page
    Comment Terms Of Use

    11 Responses to “Police Using G.P.S. Units as Evidence in Crimes”

    1. jemokley Says:

      well, i’m against being tracked and all but if you’re under investigation for murder than use it—don’t be so blind to see one’s right of privacy can be violated if you violate someone’s right to live

    2. Kenneth Dillard Says:

      Another example of trying to convince the public that tracking everyone and everything is beneficial–Show the big old boogie man that was taken down by this cool new technology.

      While I am sad for the loss of the lives, I am more scared over this next step in the complete control of our lives by ever more watchful eyes.

    3. Emule Says:

      Yeah OnStar probably or the cell phone was used. I wonder if OnStar would do you any good if you press the button and say that someone is chasing you, like the cops…. Would they tell you to pull over and someone would assist you?

    4. mr flintstone Says:

      If you own a cell phone gps credit cards any bank card get rid of them right now allways cash cash cash. All new electrical gadgets are trackable. Go out and buy old stuff telophone with the old style dialing system. Be safe from ALL government even the small town mayor. KEEP AWAY FROM ALL RELGION 1 CHRISTIANITY 2 ISLAM i see the brain dead everywhere.

    5. Eric Says:

      What’s really needed is GPS and surveillance and camera tracking of all government employees and “elected representatives”. They do the most damage and commit the worst crimes after all. You should be able to know their whereabouts and doings 24/7 at the click of a mouse.

    6. crimpdaddy Says:

      this is something that i have been saying since the first time i installed a nav system years ago. if you can read your position from bouncing signals off of satellites, what is to stop them from reading where you are? the same thing goes for satellite radio. same GPS antenna, same basic principle. and for any of you who don’t know… bluetooth is nothing more than a low grade transponder that is capable of transmitting and receiving data. eventually they will be able to track you from your bluetooth enabled phone, if they can’t already. i said it b4 and i will say it again… everyday seems more and more like 1984 instead of 2008

    7. GPS is Racist Says:

      OJ Simpson had a GPS unit in his SUV that placed him at the scene of his ex-wife’s murder, but the court threw out the evidence because the judge said that “GPS is racist.”

    8. Karmakaze Says:

      First off all, this is NOT a “tracking device” in the sense used by Alex Jones et al. GPS receivers RECEIVE, not TRANSMIT!

      This is NOT a real time tracking device unlike a cell phone. What they are talking about here is the police reading the memory of the GPS device to find where you have been, not where you are now. Most, if not all, GPS receivers keep records of previous trips and THAT information can be used to show where you were at a particular time in the past, such as during a murder.

      This is no different to using phone records or credit card records or any of a number of other records that you leave in your wake to determine where you were.

      Even if you are a cash based person, you still leave transaction records behind at many places – for example gas stations often record the license plates of cars filling up in case the driver leaves without paying.

      This is NOT tracking! Tracking is having your current location available in real time. This is tracing, which is determining where you were in the past, using any and all available records of your movements.

    9. Wow Says:

      Karmakaze is completely 100% wrong. Any and all GPS sytems can (with the required software at the trackers end) be tracked in real time.

    10. Ken Says:

      We had a gentlemen in my town that was drunk and ran into several cars, thus damaging his own car, because of this damage to his car, his car automatically called up the police station to report that he had been involved in a traffic accident. They soon located him and arrested him after his car provide continuous location updates to the police as he drove away.

    11. Wow Says:

      GSP does not have to transmit a signal in order to be tracked. The time difference tells the GPS receiver how far away the satellite is. Distance measurements from a multiple satellites determines the user’s position.
      Karmakaze has no idea what he is talking about.


    English flagItalian flagKorean flagChinese (Simplified) flagChinese (Traditional) flagPortuguese flagGerman flagFrench flagSpanish flagJapanese flagArabic flagRussian flagGreek flagDutch flagBulgarian flagCzech flagCroat flagDanish flagFinnish flagHindi flagPolish flagRumanian flagSwedish flagNorwegian flagCatalan flagFilipino flagHebrew flagIndonesian flagLatvian flagLithuanian flagSerbian flagSlovak flagSlovenian flagUkrainian flagVietnamese flag
    By N2H