“Deputies will be able to do more than make calls, download program applications, send text messages and surf the Internet,” Younger reports. “The phones will come equipped with a special application called Coplink, which will allow deputies to access information on suspects and their mug shots.”
Younger reports, “Deputies will have access to data such as a suspect’s previous arrests, case records, crime statistics and Google Earth, which will help with investigations and initial response times, said Lt. Michael O’Connor, commander of the department’s violent-crimes and targeted-offenders unit.”
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w00t! They can use their new iPhones to ask people:
“Es usted un inmigrante ilegal?”
Coplink will be instrumental in their work to ferret out illegal aliens.
Using Apple’s Faces technology they can better identify the brown people who believe in Deja Vu.
Nice to see Arizona giving the best equipment to those who courageously enforce our laws.
Congrats, MDN. 25 K, wow!
I thoroughly endorse legal immigration into the U.S. regardless of race or religion.
I also believe that illegal aliens should pay the penalties proscribed by law.
Enforcing the law is not racism or any other kind of “ism.”
If you are here illegally, leave. Come back into the country when and if you are legally able.
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Arizona has the answer to police communication and to the illegal hispanic problem. Other states (Mexifornia) take note.
I am a ‘legal immigrant.
I wonder if they’ll use the Trapster app…
Congrats MDN!
There’s also an app for identifying undocumented folks from Ireland, UK, Canada, Australia, Russia, Taiwan, and Germany. It’s call “Search Everyone.”
I wonder if they’ll use the ‘More Donuts’ app?
“Arizona’s Pima County to outfit deputies with 200 Apple iPhones”
Gosh – I have difficulty focussing on 2 iphones, if, for instance trying to get ‘bump’ to work properly – goodness knows what I’d do with 200 of them – where would they put them all?
@Jim: Arresting a brown-skinned truck driver with three valid government issued IDs because he didn’t have a birth certificate with him IS RACISM.
Do you carry your birth certificate with you? Will your birth certificate fit in your wallet?
@MDN: C’mon who is the Pima County Sheriff kidding, have you ever tried to get AT&T;service in Pima County outside of the Phoenix exurbs of Apache Junction, Gold Canyon, and Queen Creek?
Congratulations on being a legal immigrant. Now just work on your racism…
This would sound good except for the fact that AT&T;is particularly weak in the rural areas. In Tucson City limits and along I-10 it should work fine, but the Sheriff’s Deputies work mostly our in the county where the AT&T;phones are just bricks. I know because I live thee.
Congratulations MDN!
“Arizona’s Pima County to outfit deputies with 200 Apple iPhones”
Whoa there, only 200? I think you could double up with special pockets and you could fit 200 on each leg. Of course you’d use Eddie Bauer pants and the belt would have to be Kevlar. The hard part would be the geo positioning app, but when the phone was on vibrate it would be one hell of thrill.
Well now they can do their Gestapo activities to unconstitutionally force people to show identification. Apparently Arizona hates the bill of rights.
Oh congrats MDN on 25000 and the cool new iPad app. But you’re still not a journalist.
TPD, (Tucson Police Dept) already has these they are limited to 400 mins a month and the “Drug Guys” (undercover) use them….And what’s the difference, a Cop asks you for I.D. or the Border Patrol, is there a difference???…..No, grow up people it’s not racism…If the Federal government has a better idea to curb Illegal immigration I would like to see it, it’s too politically “hot” for anybody to deal with obviously, and is a huge problem in AZ >
yes sir can we get an iPhone taser app to zap those wet willies during the roundup?
@TommyBoy
Actually yeah, my birth certificate will fit in my pocket. It’s less than the size of a 5 x 7 post card on easily foldable paper. Of course that was a while back. I can’t speak for the size and material used for today’s birth certificate.
And can you tell me where you saw that one would need their birth certificate over three government issued IDs?
And before you go to the usual playbook page of the left by labeling one RACIST, maybe you and a few politicians ought to go and spend a few nights with residents who have voiced concern and fear for what is going on at night where they live. Then you can report back to me and let me know if they have a valid point of being afraid for their safety and the Governor a valid point in addressing the concerns of the legal citizen’s civil rights of her state! Do that for me, will you? Thanks.
@dialtone
“There’s also an app for identifying undocumented folks from Ireland, UK, Canada, Australia, Russia, Taiwan, and Germany. It’s call “Search Everyone.”
and how do you think those countrys treat illegals?
I’m an American living in Mexico , you don’t go anywhere without the proper papers to show you are here legally.
You should see how they treat illeagls coming from central america on their southern border
It’s not a serious law enforcement tool unless it tazes, strips, questions and detains anyone who doesn’t pass the McCain field test of skin whiteness.
John Lott has written:
FACT ONE: “The law specifically bans picking up someone just because they are Hispanic or even because the person was originally from Mexico or any other country you can read a copy of the law right here. Anyone arrested for a crime must have their immigration status determined before they are released. Thus, it is not just Hispanics who will be required to provide evidence of citizenship, but so will all whites, blacks and Asians. If the eligibility for public services depends on citizenship, again, everyone who applies, regardless of race, will have to provide an ID. In other circumstances, law enforcement officials must have reasonable suspicion, not based simply on the person’s race or origin, that the individual is an illegal alien before they can ask to check someone’s ID.”
FACT TWO: ID allowable under the law: “a driver’s license, a non-operating identification license, valid tribal enrollment card or other form of tribal identification, or “any valid United States federal, state, or local government issued identification.”
So can you open borders apologists please get your facts straight before you go mouthing off in a forum like this where most of us are well informed on these kind of issues? Sure, you have a right to your own opinion, just not your own facts.
And by the way, President Obama and many Democrats, such as Senator Charles Schumer, support a national ID card in order to implement ObamaCare, so it hard to argue that Arizona’s requirement will impose an undue burden.
@ Beeblebrox
There is plenty of case law. In the good old USA, you are not required to show identification, for instance, if you are not driving. Case law established in San Diego when police asked a homeless person for ID. He didn’t have one, of course, and was arrested. The homeless guy won the suit. We do not have national ID’s here. Probably never will. I do like Fact 1. No proof of citizenship, no free public services.