Wireless Devices Help Police Fight Crime

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By MARTIN FINUCANE, Associated Press Writer

BOSTON - A police officer stops you on the street, then taps something into a device in the palm of his hand.

The next minute, he knows who your relatives are, who lives in your house, who your neighbors are, the kind of car you drive or boat you own, whether you've been sued and various other tidbits about your life.

Science fiction? Hardly.

A growing number of police departments now have instant access via handheld wireless devices to vast commercial databases that contain details on just about anyone officers encounter on the beat.

In a time of terrorism worries, the information could theoretically save lives, or produce clues that an eagle-eyed cop could use to solve a case.

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This is disgusting. America under Bush, Lott, Delay, Hastert, Frist, Gingrich has become a rancid country.

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1. With all this fancy gadgetry, why can't they capture the real

criminals and put them in prison for their war crimes, war profiteering, crimes against humanity, theft of public funds, fraud, murder, false imprisonment of innocents, etc.?