{"id":19970,"date":"2015-12-16T04:52:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T09:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19970"},"modified":"2015-12-15T21:54:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T02:54:22","slug":"tech-mic-police-are-putting-gps-trackers-in-every-object-you-can-imagine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19970","title":{"rendered":"Tech.mic: Police Are Putting GPS Trackers in Every Object You Can Imagine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech.mic: <a href=\"http:\/\/mic.com\/articles\/130229\/these-may-look-like-ordinary-items-but-theyre-actually-police-traps#.wEuTGjfjM\">Police Are Putting GPS Trackers in Every Object You Can Imagine<\/a> by Jack Smith IV:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dallas Police Sergeant James Johnson first started playing around with bait cars when he was working on auto theft cases for the DPD. Over the past decade, the department rigged vehicles with GPS tracking devices and set them up to be stolen. His team put out eight cars (at most) across the city, selecting small hotspots at high risk for auto theft.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Johnson would watch the map, wait for the car to start moving and follow it to a home or a chop shop, where his squad would zoom in and make their arrests. Each year, they&#8217;d nab about 50 to 60 people; the program is credited with cutting auto theft by 57% since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Today, it&#8217;s not just cars that are used as bait. Using the latest GPS trackers, police have transformed a range of coveted objects \u2014 purses, bikes, boxes of Air Jordans, UPS packages sitting on a stoop, bottles of prescription drugs, anything someone might want to steal \u2014 into trackable objects. <\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Johnson got his first contract as part of the Operational Technology Unit to begin building bait devices. His first year, there were 195 arrests. This year, his goal was 250. He blew way past it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech.mic: Police Are Putting GPS Trackers in Every Object You Can Imagine by Jack Smith IV: Dallas Police Sergeant James Johnson first started playing around with bait cars when he was working on auto theft cases for the DPD. Over &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19970\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gps-tracking-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19971,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19970\/revisions\/19971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}