A smartphone app bought by Google for a billion dollars, Waze is a subset of Google maps so you can avoid traffic, traffic cameras, speed traps, and construction zones in your commute.
But because it also shows cops locations, and cops don't want the public to be informed about what they do, or where, and when... they are loosing their minds and forgot that they are employees of the tax payers, and do a job they volunteered for, to "protect and SERVE"
Regardless of the fact that anyone wanting to find cops very simply can just go to any donut shop, 7-11, or police station... LAPD Chief Beck is so scared that criminals will use a smartphone app to track cops, that he mailed Google to demand they remove cop tracking from Waze.
Google has a complicated issue to resolve... they are the best, and the biggest, and when the USA govt gets into trouble with hackers, it asks for help. When the US govt gets nosy, it either hacks Google, or subpoenas the user info of Google clients and customers. Google is pissed at the govt espionage on American citizens and went encrypted for consumers, and discloses to consumers what user info they've been forced to cough up to the US govt.
"Google is regularly compelled to turn over to police worldwide copies of emails or other information about its customers. Last year, after disclosures that the National Security Agency had illicitly broken into Google's overseas Internet communication lines, Google and other technology companies rolled out encryption for consumers, which the U.S. government said could hamper law enforcement investigations. Also last year, Google and other companies sued the U.S. to allow them to more fully disclose to customers details about how much information they were required to hand over each year." http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_POLICE_TRACKING_APP?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-01-26-03-07-22
I use Waze everyday on my way from and to work and I find it simply great and, i'm not talking about a good way to skip cops but it's more about traffic...it works fantastically and it's easy to install and menage. That's the best navi system...
ReplyDeleteI think it is more about not wanting someone to know where I'm sitting running radar, then getting into a position where they can shoot me in the head. Most officers don't care about people warning others in regards to knowing where to slow down. If you can get a warning that a cruiser is along a particular stretch of road, and you still speed through, you may deserve a speeding ticket.
ReplyDeleteWell, cops are cowards about running radar, and getting shot. They voluntarily take the job to deal with speeders, and criminals. If neither of those can be done with intergrity, the cops we are burdened with are useless. I stood on the side of the road with a radar gun. People saw me, slowed down, and the objective was accomplished. Those that didn't get the message got a ticket, and then got the message. It's very simple. I don't have any respect for law enforcement because they went out of their way to lose all respect previous generations earned through hard work and determination to be repectable. Being cowards about the population knowing their location at ANY and ALL TIMES is ridiculous. They were a uniform and drive a police car to be easily identifiable. That's the point.
DeleteHell, if it were u-p to me cops would have all sorts of info available to the public all the time, as to where they were and what they are doing, and video online to show what's going on. Cops are running as a drain on the public financially, and therefore owe the public the best they can offer. Knowing and seeing what the cops did every day, how well, and why situations occurred is easily expected to verify that cops are doing a good job for, and among the public, and worth the expense. If no cops showed up to work, no anarchy would occur, we just wouldn't have speed traps by redneck revenue raisers
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