Tuesday, January 15, 2008

asking truants to see the serial #s on their Sidekicks

Check out this new policy by NYPD to ask (non-criminal!) truant teenagers if they can check the serial #s on their Sidekicks. This is interesting in terms individualized suspicion - asking every single truant for the opportunity to check if their cellphone is stolen simply because there's a high rate of cellphone theft is a little hard to swallow, even if it is "voluntary"..


Police Are Tracking Thefts of Sidekick Phones
: NYTimes blog article by Sewell Chan.

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