Why Smart Cops Do Dumb Things
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The Boston police crackdown on blinking lights is a reminder that homeland security policies are often more about CYA than security. Commentary by Bruce Schneier.
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'This is a real badge, I'm a real cop...' Unlikely as it may seem, we have just acquired evidence that the cops in Western Australia have gone and got themselves a sense of humour. For proof, check out this search which reveals the mail server used by Australia's finest, viz: riggs.police.wa.gov.au.â¦
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Imbedding security chips in possessions and pets is nothing new. Chipping people, however, has Orwellian overtones that angers civil libertarians and conservatives alike.
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By TOBI COHEN  TORONTO (CP) - Police forces around the world spend fortunes trolling for and arresting Internet predators and educating parents, teens and children about cyber-safety.
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Â· Weaknesses found in new system two years after 7/7 Â· Devices won't work in some police stations
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Where do stereotypes, like jokes about dumb blondes, come from? An armchair economic analysis suggests some intriguing possibilities.
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VENTURA, Calif. - Police Chief Pat Miller learned first hand that the law has teeth: Oxnard police dog Beemer thought he was taking a bite out of crime when he chomped down on the chief's leg.
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InfoWorld - Brad Willman was installing networking equipment out of an emergency van in British Columbia when a policeman showed up and asked for him. Willman knew the officer from a case he was involved with a couple of years earlier, so he didn't worry -- until he arrived at the police station and was introduced to a couple of U.S. cops.
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The San Jose Police Department offers an object lesson in how to build a poor user interface, as the New York Times&#39; Katie Hafner reports.
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Prosecutors say a man used fake badges and a car outfitted with lights and a siren to convince people he was a police officer and get them to pay "fines."
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Reckless drivers who use legal loopholes to avoid conviction are being targeted in a new police initiative.
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Police officers are taking unnecessary risks in car chases, according to a report by the Independent Police Complaints Commission. About 40 people a year die in road incidents involving the police, most due to police pursuit -- many more than any other cause of death following police contact, the study found...
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...to catch our criminals The UK's outgoing Home Secretary John Reid told US consumer electronics kingpins today that if they spent as much time turning their products into crime-stopping gadgets as they did making them look nice and work well, we might wash petty crime from our streets.â¦
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Police departments around the country turn to sound-analysis technology to detect and report gunshots. By Amit Asaravala.
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You gotta be kidding me. Where's the logic?
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None of us are smart enough to understand how these things wind up happening.
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A breakthrough in computer-assisted mind reading brings us closer to predicting criminality. Should the justice system adapt? Commentary by Jennifer Granick.