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Oct 9,2008
Technology Versus Civil Liberties in Portland
by shooter
The Portland Police Department is testing a new camera system that automatically records the license plate number, time, and location of vehicles encountered while police are on patrol.The plate number is compared against a database of stolen license plates to help identify and recover stolen vehicles. The system can even track the movements of a vehicle in the city because all the plate numbers recorded are stored in a database.
While the usefulness of this system is obvious, it does raise civil liberties concerns. The biggest question is how will the public be assured that the recorded information will only be used for its intended purpose? Can the information be subpoenaed for use in civil cases?
These systems have been in use in the US for about 5 years, while similar camera systems have been used in Europe for much longer. Police departments who use the system report success with the system, recovering numerous stolen ve
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Sep 17,2008
Debunking Urban Legends—Take Email Warnings with a Grain of Salt
by pearlgirl
by Stephanie Reynolds Have you ever received an email warning you about ankle-slashing gangs hiding under cars? How about killers lurking in backseats? Kidney thieves? A deadly game, popular with teens, called Spunkball? Knockout, or even deadly, perfume samples? These are just a few, of the many, false stories about crime and violence circulating around the internet. The stories often contain instructions, such as, "Please forward this to everyone you know! It could save a life!" Recipients of the messages, with the best of intentions, forward the messages without checking for validity, and the misinformation spreads like wildfire. The stories rarely contain anything useful or accurate, yet people may change their behaviors based on the information they receive from these cautionary tales. Did you ever hear the urban legend that, as an initiation rite, gang members drive around without their headlights on, and the first person who flashes their lights at them i
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Sep 12,2008
The Mayor’s New Prostitution Plan
by shooter
Mayor Potter has unveiled his new strategy for dealing with prostitution on the eastside. Residents say that in the year since the drug and prostitution-free zones were eliminated, the problem has soared. Potter's plan is to get tough on prostitutes and johns. The city will dedicate four unmarked cars to anti-prostitution stings seven days a week. It will also ask judges to put repeat prostitutes and johns on probation and exclude them from specific areas. This would allow police to arrest them for being in a designated area, without having to involve the parole officer.
Skeptical residents say the plan doesn't target johns and relies on the prostitutes actually showing up in court. Residents want the prostitution-free zone (PFZ) reinstated. They said that the racial-profiling noted in the report that shut down both zones was based on arrest data for the drug-free zone only. The report does not contain the word "prostitut
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Aug 31,2008
82nd AVENUE Neighborhoods Unite to Curb Prostitution
by pearlgirl
“TAKE BACK 82nd” Two-Part Community Town Hall Series Slated for Sept 15th and Oct 7th Citing common frustration with rampant prostitution up and down 82nd Avenue, neighborhood leaders from the north end of the thoroughfare at NE Killingsworth to the south end at the Clackamas County line have joined forces together, and have collaboratively developed a two-part town-hall meeting series to educate residents and business on how to combat this growing problem. This citizen-driven town hall series will strive to create understanding of the root causes of prostitution and what community members can do to fight it at an individual, street, neighborhood and city level.The first meeting is slated to take place at Vestal Elementary located at 121 NE 82nd Avenue on Monday, September 15th from 6-8:30pm, and will feature as panelists Commissioner Randy Leonard , Lila Lee (Council for Prostitution Alternatives), Bill Smith ( Defenders USA ), Ken Turner (President,
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