GPS Badges?
Well, not quite yet, but maybe soon:
- Police departments in South Carolina and Massachusetts are testing a radio frequency identification system to manage badge inventory and department security better. Both are testing the SmartShield system, which consists of officer badges with embedded RFID chips and a records management software application known as Enforcement Identification (Eid).
Developed and marketed by V.H. Blackinton & Co., SmartShield can be used to track badges as they leave a storage area for assignment to officers. RFID interrogators (readers) are not included in the package, but by the time the system becomes commercially available in August, they might be, according V.H. Blackinton's John Domurad, director of research and development. "They're in development," he says.
It's an older article (2006) and the RFID is more for scanning you into and out of secure areas. But the data is logged and trackable and would seem to to be completely fitting with the direction the Department is going lately.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
35 Comments:
Lucky its not in the CPD stars we have now, the GPS chip would have fallen out by now.
The red light cameras are being pushed by disgraced cops out of Arizona. I know two out of Illinois that are working for those companies. These scum bags don't give a shit about anything but a quick buck.
Dollars to donuts that this GPS badge bullshit is the same deal.
For Chicago to implement this would be a mistake. The RFID smart chip is supposed to locate and identify the person in which they are assigned to, but it will also eventually house ALL of your personal info. This means that, in the end, if you in some way, shape or form get in the way of the powers that be they can simply turn off your chip!!! Is this something that you want?
I'M ALMOST SPEECHLESS, ALL THIS TECHNOLOGY THAT MOST LIKELY WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU CAN ONLY MAKE
THE JOB LESS AND LESS DESIRABLE...
HEAVEN HELP YOU FINE PO'S***
MY WIFE SPECIAL ORDERED ONE FOR MY BOXERS, I PUT IT ON THE DOG'S COLLAR...GOOD BOY GOOD BOY...
Dude you are a paranoid old bastard! You obviously are not familiar with how RFID works...besides, 2 seconds in the microwave will burn any RFID without damaging the badge.
Blackinton can't even get the lettering to stay on stars. Those cips won't last a week.
The exempts will be exempted from any tracking and logging device.
The Blackington reps told me that every CPD star was tagged with the RFID crap before they left the factory. This was during the time they were given the order several years ago. I thought you all knew that>>>
Excellent! nevermind 14 year olds dressing in Chicago Police uniforms, you'll have all sorts of low-lifes buying RFID scanning products to copy your badges and signing out the department M-4's for drive-by shootings.
Think I'm kidding? Check out...
http://www.rfidiot.org/
Cool! Maybe they can be programmed to give voice directions to Starbucks!
Reminds me of Will Smith's star in I-Robot....
Looks like then the companies that make look alike badges will get some police business also, you want to try this we are now a smarter more educated dept idiots!
Snoops this??? Just like the IRS is coming for your guns via tax filling next year And Nixon was in Dallas when JFK was shot-So So what-Semper Fi
Two words: Faraday cage. Look it up.
Imagine the havoc that could/will be created when either a very intelligent individual gets their hands on a lost/stolen star or when organized crime figures it out.
Very Orwellian indeed, next thing they will be making you take the mark of the beast.
It's for your safety officers, it will make sure nothing bad happens to you. FUCK YOU!
They are effectively implementing the initial stages of the mark of the beast.
RFID tracking, chips implanted in dogs, preferred cards to track your purchasing habits, GPS tracking, cameras and audio recorders everywhere, paying by using a finger scanner, chip implanted passports, Onstar tracking your daily commutes, IPASS tracking your driving habits, GPS locators on all cellular phones and the encouraged use of credit/debit cards instead of cash.
Think I am crazy, research it. There is a Federal law in Canada that all domesticated pets must be RFID chipped. All livestock in the European Union must be RFID chipped. They are RFID chipping humans in China. They are encouraging parents to RFID chip their children in the US, in case your child is kidnapped, yeah right.
The average citizen in London is filmed 6,000 times a day.
There is an agenda here people, WAKE UP. You are losing what little freedom you have, the totalitarian Marxist state is encroaching upon us.
Wiat until they mandate the swine flu innoculation. Either you take it or you are quarantined.
Obama now has the authority to shut the internet down in a "time of emergency".
It is coming, prepare yourselves. We are sworn to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America!
Semper Fidelis!
RFID and GPS are very different. Not to say that RFID isn't a bad thing too, but they're not going to get a GPS receiver in a badge without you knowing. RFID operates without a battery, GPS needs one.
And like another poster said, it's easy to fry an RFID, just give it 5-10 seconds in the microwave.
This is from Blackinton badge company. This company was the one who makes the stars that are falling apart. Also, there were the company that made our old stars without authority so they could be sold on EBay. This scandel is the cause of the city shelling out big bucks for new badges. Someone in IAD had written a meno that banned Blackington from selling to the city, But there were overruled by city hall becuse Teddy Kennedy is the congressman for Blackington.
As God as my witness, the first thing I did when I got the new star was cook it in the W/S's microwave for 15 seconds upon hearing the "conspiracy theorists" concerns about RIFD. Couldn't hurt, I thought.
And although I'm not 100% certain, I think the time in the microwave did something to help keep the numbers from falling off of it - I haven't had any such problems in this respect.
Badges we don't need no stinking badges....besides just leave them at work the company will think you are working late every night or day!!
Cool. Ill leave it locked in the trunk with my in car camera microphones.
2 questions:
1) do any techno people know if RFID chips can work in such close proximity to a large piece of metal (our stars)?
2) if this is true, why do I have a 'swipe card' (RFID) to get into secure places in my station? Seems the readers could just read my star, who needs the card?
I do like the idea of burning it in the microwave, though.......
thats why i had my fake star made suckers!!!
Anonymous said...
Dude you are a paranoid old bastard! You obviously are not familiar with how RFID works...besides, 2 seconds in the microwave will burn any RFID without damaging the badge.
9/03/2009 12:58:00 AM
yea cool man put your badge in micro and watch your micro explode goofus!
Kinda reminds me of the communicator badge they wear in the Star Trek movies.
BEAM ME UP J-FED!!!!!!!
i can see po's leaving their stars at work and people (felon janitors) breaking into lockers and you get my point
OK SCC
you reporrings are getting kind of Crazy and fictional lately!!
First it was the GPS in the SUV's and now the Future badges...
Next you'll tell me satellite systems and the Gamma frequency...
Ease up on the juice and I say if your not having any then you need to..,
Button spy cameras, pen recorders, GPS - Two way radios...
Relax-- will ya??!!
Why do you think our new badges have serial numbers???
There was nothing wrong with the old badges. Yet the city spent how much replacing them with the generic POS badge we carry now.
Our badges too have a chip in them and you too are being tracked 24/7.
So leave that badge and ID at home when you go to the bar my friends.
When are you going to learn you are the property of the mental midgit!!!
Sounds good to me. I'm always where I say I'm at. Got nothing better to do at work.....
If the City buys it, it will be like the Chronos system: Always broken and unrepairable because the company that sold the system to the city went out of business as soon as the check cleared.
Anonymous said...
Very Orwellian indeed, next thing they will be making you take the mark of the beast.
It is coming, prepare yourselves. We are sworn to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America!
Semper Fidelis!
9/03/2009 07:39:00 AM
Politicians are also "sworn to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America"
How does that work out?
just wrap the star in aluminum foil
and bake it in the oven for 45 min
between electronic ana sheets, the electronic records of when you really log on to the computor in the squad that you are using on any given date and time, event# for any incident...yea even your 15 min "personal", how stupid can one be in this tracking era...you can be caught dirty any time any unit of assignment unless your pretty squeaky clean. point being that unless you are political or have some caps type job with no real accountability and you want to pension out some day, don't be caught stealing time or money. "kiss" as we old timers were taught, and you ll get there.
Demolition Man
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