New South Wales’ police are currently engaged in a trial program of using iPad mini tablets to issue tickets for traffic violations. The four week pilot program has police in Sydney, Australia and some of the surrounding regions trying out 20 locked iPad minis as a tool to speed up the process of issuing tickets. An app called Mobile Notices was built by Australian firm Grindstone and...
LulzSec, in a joint effort with fellow griefer group Anonymous, targeted Arizona Police yesterday when they leaked hundreds of confidential documents into the wild via BitTorrent. The intelligence docs, training manuals, and personal data (including names, e-mails, cell phone numbers and addresses of police workers) have been confirmed as authentic by Arizona law enforcement. The state...
I very rarely read newspapers anymore, be it the physical or online versions, and frankly, don’t really miss it. What I do miss is keeping up to date on the crime rate in my town by reading the police blotters. It’s not the most “feel good” section of the paper but it gives me a sense of what’s happening in my town on the public safety front. To my surprise, while at a City Council...