USA Today: Law enforcement now using radar to see inside people's homes

[NightHawkeye]

New police radars can 'see' inside homes | USA Today

WASHINGTON — At least 50 U.S. law enforcement agencies have secretly equipped their officers with radar devices that allow them to effectively peer through the walls of houses to see whether anyone is inside, a practice raising new concerns about the extent of government surveillance.

Those agencies, including the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service, began deploying the radar systems more than two years ago with little notice to the courts and no public disclosure of when or how they would be used. The technology raises legal and privacy issues because the U.S. Supreme Court has said officers generally cannot use high-tech sensors to tell them about the inside of a person's house without first obtaining a search warrant.​

 

[Inkachu]

You don't wanna see what happens inside my house Heh...

 

[High Fidelity]

This is good so long as it's used properly. Whether it will be is another question.

 

[Bedford]

 

[Billnew]

This is good so long as it's used properly. Whether it will be is another question.

When is it proper to look inside someones house without a warrant?

If 4th amendment doesn't apply to our homes, then it doesn't apply anywhere.

Severe restrictions need to be in place to monitor police and the times they use it. Bored cop plays with this device and watches people for no reason.
Everytime it displays a picture, it should be reporting to superiors and/or to a data base, accessable by civilian groups and lawyers.

Without a warrant, nothing on this device should be admissable in court, also no search based on the information obtained should be admissable.

 

[Inkfingers]

When you rely on man to try to make the Kingdom of God here on earth....you rapidly move from a Utopian dream to a Dystopian reality.

 

[High Fidelity]

When is it proper to look inside someones house without a warrant?

If 4th amendment doesn't apply to our homes, then it doesn't apply anywhere.

Severe restrictions need to be in place to monitor police and the times they use it. Bored cop plays with this device and watches people for no reason.
Everytime it displays a picture, it should be reporting to superiors and/or to a data base, accessable by civilian groups and lawyers.

Without a warrant, nothing on this device should be admissable in court, also no search based on the information obtained should be admissable.

This is good so long as it's used properly. Whether it will be is another question.

I'm not saying it should be used without a warrant.

 

[Paulos23]

The question is, what is the resultion on the thing. I can imagine it getting to the point where it can show what you are doing. And that is clearly a violation if done with out a warrenet.

But then, in a hot prusuit, if it cut down on finding the fleeing suspect I imagine that may be allowed.

 

[Bedford]

The question is, what is the resultion on the thing. I can imagine it getting to the point where it can show what you are doing. And that is clearly a violation if done with out a warrenet.

But then, in a hot prusuit, if it cut down on finding the fleeing suspect I imagine that may be allowed.

Then why do this when we can go straight to tracking chips for all!!!!!!

I mean if we're going to do it, let's do it right!

 

[Paulos23]

Then why do this when we can go straight to tracking chips for all!!!!!!

I mean if we're going to do it, let's do it right!

Because some people are suspicious of the government of the people.

 

[Inkfingers]

Because some people are suspicious of the government of the people.

A government of an ignorant mob is no better than a government of a corrupt elite.

 

[Bedford]

Because some people are suspicious of the government of the people.

I was being facetious. I don't like this radar intrusion.

Next up is radar-blocking walls.

 

[JustMeSee]

Am I paranoid to consider that all of these secret technologies will be misused by community, state, or federal officials?

What happens when all of these data mined personal profiles fall into the hands of less scrupulous people?

In so many ways, those who are supposed to be serving and protecting us are instead invading on innocent rights and privacy. .. all in secret.

 

[NightHawkeye]

I was being facetious. I don't like this radar intrusion.

Next up is radar-blocking walls.

LOL, get your tin-foil ready.

 

[Inkfingers]

Am I paranoid to consider that all of these secret technologies will be misused by community, state, or federal officials?

When you look to man to make heaven on earth through his own power you end up with hell on earth.

 

[Bedford]

When you look to man to make heaven on earth through his own power you end up with hell on earth.

This has nothing to do with making Heaven on Earth. This is about trying to capture bad people.

 

[JustMeSee]

When you look to man to make heaven on earth through his own power you end up with hell on earth.

I am just looking for officials to have a decent amount of trust. Really, my panties are in a wad over the NSA. I am just weary of law abiding citizens getting captured in the process of fighting crime and terrorism.

The technology is great for law enforcement. It is just the unknown and never to be disclosed that worries me.

Seeing that heaven is a vague human image, I am not sure what direction one would approach to make earth more like heaven. Humans in groups tend to lead to great damage.

 

[Billnew]

I'm not saying it should be used without a warrant.

Because some people are suspicious of the government of the people.

Because goverment has proven they can't be trusted. They will do anything in the name of "protecting and defending", forgetting that it's illegal to go to far.

LOL, get your tin-foil ready.

What tin foil hat is needed? They can watch you make it, listen to every word you say and report to no one that they did it, unless there is a crime committed.

hmm, combine technology, use a small drone to deliver the "radar" to high level buildings with listening tecnology on board and you can see what is going on in any high rise and listen in too. (Probably wouldn't work well with the vibration from the drone, but set it down on a ledge...

 

[ananda]

This has nothing to do with making Heaven on Earth. This is about trying to capture bad people.

Everyone apparently commits multiple felonies a day. We are all now the "bad people", and this technology is merely another means to capture us if they really wanted to come after us for any reason. e.g. "this woman own a piece of land a $$$ developer wants. let's go find what felonies she's committing today" kind of thing.

 

[Bedford]

Everyone apparently commits multiple felonies a day. We are all now the "bad people", and this technology is merely another means to capture us if they really wanted to come after us for any reason. e.g. "this woman own a piece of land a $$$ developer wants. let's go find what felonies she's committing today" kind of thing.

I am on the record as against this radar....

It is they who tell us they will only go after the bad people.

We don't believe them.