Reporting 101: There Are Two Kinds of GPS - but Reporters Aren’t Covering the Kind That Works.
First, there are two kinds of GPS. Second, most reporters and State and Congressional staffers, don’t know this. Sadly, it follows when reporters are unaware of critical information, the public is then and repeatedly, misinformed. Misinformation is responsible in part, for our continuing murder rate.
The type of GPS most reporters write about is passive. Probation officers occasionally check long after-the-fact data records detailing where a subject has been, once or twice a day. Worse, the manufacturers of passive GPS use straps that are easily cut off - as demonstrated by the Orange County parolees charged in killing four women demonstrated recently. Clearly, passive, after-the-fact, GPS record collection does not work. Never mind the straps. Simply put, passive GPS particularly does not work if Probation is involved. Also, (and worse) Congressional staffers rely on information from Probation and Parole..
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