Always nice to see when child predators get blindsided with a rise in the local tech level: it turns out that bleeding-edge photo-enhancement and pattern-matching technology can glean all sorts of interesting details from digital images these days. Like where that child molester went on vacation. Or what his prescription bottle information is saying in that ‘blurry’ photo. Or any other sorts of useful information.
Alas, those sick f*cks will eventually start doing counter-measures. But that’s the nature of technology. And, of course, there’s unfortunately a large backlog for the feds to go through again…
Via @jaketapper.
This is the kind of law enforcement I’m *happy* to see my tax dollars paying for.
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Sadly, it’s also the kind that’s, you know, *actual work* .. so it’s not what certain members of the law enforcement community want to be doing.
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Alas.
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Mew
Here’s another tale of how hard it is to get the police to *do the actual work* part..
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There may be times when processing a rape kit isn’t necessary – rapist caught in the act, shot, pronounced dead at the scene, for an extreme example – but .. most of the time, they *should* be..
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.. so how did Oregon end up here?
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http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/01/oregon_prosecutors_could_file.html
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Mew